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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.164

The authors describe a socialization program for outpatients, most of them chronic schizophrenics, that accepts the patients' regressed state and their need to gratify their exaggerated oral dependent strivings. A total of 39 patients were involved in the program for eight months. At the end of that period, 15 of the 39 showed a noticeable improvement in social functioning.

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