[Disordered coping with illness by personal prejudices of patients with schizophrenic psychoses]

Negative prejudices against psychiatry and psychiatric patients are a reality today. But prejudices are also existent in the patients self, especially in schizophrenic patients, leading to adverse therapeutic reactions. Prejudices of the patients himself may be a hidden, unconscious problem in some cases of treatment resistance in rehabilitation of schizophrenic patients. Therapeutic strategies are discussed on the basis of case reports.