Communication of and with schizophrenic patients

The communication of schizophrenic patients is widely studied because the s ymptoms have often communicative character and are frequently disorders of communication. Communication of patients, however, are mainly consequences or results of communication of other persons with the patients, e.g. parent s, significant partners, helping professionals, etc. This perspective is fo llowed in tradition of modern schizophrenia research, highlighting the conc ept of Expressed emotions (EE), and the author's own experiences of facilit ative, non-demanding way of communicating with patients. The shift from com munication of schizophrenics to communication with them has thus both theor etical and therapeutic implications, as already Ammon had noted who had pro posed the term "patient reacting schizophrenically" instead df speaking of a schizophrenic patient.