All those articles are for PTSD. PTSD is not the same as schizophrenia. Just because psychotherapy helps with PTSD doesn't mean it'll help with schizophrenia. Mental illnesses, and their treatments, are not fungible!
1. See my other reply in this thread about the potential link between and high comorbidity of PTSD and schizophrenia.
2. The argument brought up was that brain 'damage' "just is", and cannot be reversed; which is where any neuroplasticity research can be used to show that it is not that simple, and that even brain structures can and do continue to change over the course of a lifetime, not only on the level of transmitters.
3. The positive effects of psychotherapy for schizophrenia are well researched.
Hardy, A., Keen, N., van den Berg, D., Varese, F., Longden, E., Ward, T., & Brand, R. M. (2023).
Trauma therapies for psychosis: A state‐of‐the‐art review.
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12499
Psychotherapy does in fact help with schizophrenia. It's been a while since I was steeped in reading sources that backs this up, but one thing I came across was the notion that therapy alone is actually more effective than antipsychotics alone for certain symptoms. (If memory serves, therapy is better than drugs for persistent delusions.)
However, I think the best treatment involves both.
