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The central disturbance in schizophrenics is of ego functions. Within the clinical setting, psychoanalytic therapy is rarely possible. A combination of individual and group therapy enables the patient to regress, to slowly emerge from this 'symbiosis' with the therapist, and to begin an individuation process. Boren deals with this essential phase for the formation of the ego, as described by M. Mahler in 1968.