Psychotherapy, or treatment that uses psychological methods to change people’s emotions, personality or behavior, is what we call psychotherapy. How does psychotherapy play a role in the treatment of schizophrenia patients? Because of the abundance of psychotic symptoms in the acute phase of schizophrenia, patients’ behavior, emotions, and cognition are affected by psychotic symptoms and lack self-knowledge, so it is often difficult to comprehend the linguistic requirements of psychotherapy. Therefore, it is often difficult to improve patients’ awareness and comprehension of the unreality and absurdity of hallucinations and delusions, control their own behavior, and restore self-knowledge with the help of psychotherapy. In other words, psychotherapy cannot change the psychotic symptoms in the acute phase of schizophrenia, but supplementing psychotherapy in the acute phase of treatment can improve the patient’s level of awareness of the disease and improve self-care. In the treatment of schizophrenia recovery, psychotherapy is very important because, first, it can enhance patients’ compliance with treatment, ensure maintenance treatment of medication, and effectively reduce the relapse rate; second, it can help to solve patients’ psychological needs and psychological problems and improve social function in a comprehensive manner, so as to obtain satisfactory treatment results. Therefore, psychotherapy is essential to obtain satisfactory outcomes in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia.