[Psychotherapy with expressive technics in psychotic patients].

In February 1984, it was decided to resort to non-verbal expressive techniques as a suitable way for doing group psychotherapy with psychotic patients. A corporal language technique was selected which comprised (a) sense-perception elements, (b) corporal expression, and (c) yoga, arranged in five-step sessions: space acknowledgment, deep-breathing exercise, palpation of an osteoarticular structure, motility test of the previously palpated zone, and expressive exercise. Such an experiment was carried out with a group of psychotic patients, another group with psychosomatic symptoms, and a third, changeable, heterogenous group, with, obviously, a control group. Observations were made of patients' behavior during sessions, and their clinical progress throughout. All patients showed good response to the movement proposals, and no emotional excesses were detected. It was clinically observed that, in all cases, sociability improved, and anxiety decreased--in this connection, medication could be cut down accordingly. As regards 2 schizophrenic female patients, biological therapy could be ruled out.