Psychological Intervention for Persons in the Early Initial Prodromal State

Inclusion Criteria: General criteria Age between 17 and 36 years male or female, in- or outpatients written informed consent, for patients below 18 years also signed by their parents Special criteria (presented within the last three months prior to the study) Self-experienced neuropsychological deficits (basic symptoms) Thought interferences Compulsory like perseverance of thoughts Thought pressure Thought blockages Disturbances of receptive language, either heard or read Decreased ability to discriminate between ideas and perception, fantasy and true memories Unstable ideas of reference (subject-centrism) Derealisation Visual perceptual disturbances (blurred vision, transitory blindness, partial seeing, hypersensitivity of light, etc..) Acoustic perceptual disturbances (hypersensitivity to sounds or noise (hypersensitivity to sounds or noise, acoasms, etc.) AND/OR Reduction in the Global Assessment of Functioning Score (DSM IV) of at least 30 points (within the past year) and at least one of the following risk factors: First-degree relative with a lifetime-diagnosis of schizophrenia or a schizophrenia spectrum disorder Pre-or perinatal complications Exclusion Criteria: Attenuated or transient positive symptomes Present or past diagnosis of a schizophrenic, schizophreniform, schizoaffective, delusional or bipolar according to DSM IV Present or past diagnosis a brief psychotic disorder according to DSM IV with a duration of more than one week or within the last 4 weeks regardless of its duration Diagnosis of delirium, dementia, amnestic or other cognitive disorder, mental retardation psychiatric disorder due to a somatic factor or related to the consumption of psychotropic substances according DSM IV Alcohol- or drug abuse within the last three months prior to inclusion according to DSM IV Deases of the central nervous system (inflammatory, traumatic, epilepsy etc.)