Training to reduce withdrawal and lack of motivation in schizophrenia

This trial is testing Metacognitive Training for Negative Symptoms (MCT Minus) — a specialized psychological program designed to help people with schizophrenia who struggle with negative symptoms like social withdrawal, lack of motivation, and reduced emotional expression. The program works by helping you understand and change thinking patterns that may be keeping these symptoms in place. You'll work one-on-one with a trained therapist for eight sessions.

Many people with schizophrenia experience negative symptoms that are hard to treat with medication alone, and these symptoms are often what bothers patients the most. Researchers believe that the way people think about themselves and their future may be fueling these symptoms, so this treatment targets those thought patterns directly.