[Psychoeducation and schizophrenia: failure of education]

Since two decades, psychoeducation knows a great emphasize over up psychiatry because it is economically attractive. But, what about its efficacy? It is a naturalistic study of subjective attitudes and responses towards psychoeducation of 17 schizophrenics' patients currently undergoing treatment in a daily hospital. It shows that psychoeducational tools activate defensive avoidance and interfere with therapeutic alliance. They seem to enhance mistrust, suspicion, pretense and false self. However, the literature review supports that those approaches had no impact on insight, compliance with treatment, decreasing relapse and symptomatology. Our study suggests that psychoeducation is harmful because, over it is inefficacy, it compromise therapeutic alliance and increase patients' isolation.