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Pre-therapy focuses on the lower levels of functioning--learning disability, regression, chronic schizophrenia, and dementia. Pre-therapy is a commitment to understand and treat the regressed levels of -being in the world.- This book examines the theoretical growth resulting from pre-therapy.

Clinical practice with severely retarded and psychotic clients requires a change in theory and technique. Based on original research and practice, Prouty describes the changes needed to reach low-functioning clients not generally accessible to psychotherapy. Evolving from Carl Rogers' assertion that Psychological Contact is the first condition of a therapeutic relationship, Pre-Therapy is a technique that can be applied to regressed psychotics and dual-diagnosed mentally-retarded patients, as well as to other poorly integrated populations. Drawing from his own practice with extreme...