[Identification and identity formation in individual psychotherapy in schizophrenia]

Transference as well as counter transference is necessary within the therapy of neuroses; but with the relation between doctor and patient in psyotherapy certain components form processes of identification and counter identification between those two partners of the therapeutic event. Way, meaning and form of these processes leading to a new creation of identity in the patient are discussed in the following study. The nature of psychotherapy of schizophrenia as well as some theoretical aspects are lightened.