The restoration and consolidation of reality-, affective- and communicative contact is the focus of the depicted weekly patient-meeting on a ward for psychotic people.

This is a translation of Dr. G.F. Prouty's Pre-Therapy, a psychotherapeutic approach especially developped for working with low-level, contact-impaired clients. This translation is supposed to offer a model that is applicable to other settings and other populations of low-level functioning people.