The authors reported a case of chronic schizop- hrenia manifested, among many other schizophrenic symptoms, by complete mutism and aphonia persisted for 14 years. A course of E. C. T. and a trial of Amytal Interview did not prove effective in bringing him to verbal communication. After 3 months of total push method including psychotropic drugs, E. C. T. , milieu therapies and individual and group therapies, a series of speech training was started to which the patient showed an immediate response of vocalization and a gradual restoration of verbal communication. Subsqueritly the improvement of overall schizophrenic symptoms were more or less promoted by establishment of verbal communication and it ’s facilitation of supportive psychotherapeutic efforts. The authors suggest further studies of such behavioral therapeutic approach for chronic schizophr-enics.
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