"Coffee and": a way to treat the untreatable.

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.