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Audiotape playback as a technique in the treatment of schizophrenic patients

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1012

The authors report on the use of playing back audiotaped portions of the speech of two schizophrenic patients during psychotherapy. They believe that this audiotape replay was instrumental in organizing the patients' thoughts and spoken communications and that it might also have facilitated the patients' participation in psychotherapy. The usefulness of this strategy is illustrated with clinical material.

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