Yes, 70 years ago psychiatry had some odd ideas. It&#x27;s frustrating that you only make these comments about psychiatry - you don&#x27;t pop up in geography threads to say &quot;Wait, what? Does this mean geographers don&#x27;t still believe in fixed immovable continents?&quot;.<p>Endless therapy is not recommended for anything, and certainly not for schizophrenia.  There are recommended lifestyle interventions, but these are aimed to reduce or stop smoking, to control weight gain, to keep people out of hospital, or to help people gain and keep employment.<p>A therapy might be involved if a person is hearing voices, but isn&#x27;t particularly bothered by them.  In that situation it doesn&#x27;t make much sense to medicate away those voices (because the medication has severe side effects) so the person might get a &quot;therapy&quot; that helps them cope with voices, and learn when and how to seek help if the voices become too much.