Of the few psychotherapists who treated schizophrenic patients before the discovery of antipsychotic drugs, most believed that the first task of therapy was to:
A. win the trust of patients and build a close relationship with them.
B. get the patient to openly admit that their hallucinations were not real.
C. challenge the delusions that so many patients held, so that they could treat the "real" person and not just the symptom.
D. make the family members understand that schizophrenia had no real cure, and that only a modicum of improvement could or should be expected.
Ans: A. win the trust of patients and build a close relationship with them.
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