The development of educational psychology provides new ideas for ideological and political education in colleges and universities.

The study selected students with schizophrenia in a university as the research objects and randomly divided them into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group adopted the ideological and political education in colleges and universities integrated with the idea of educational psychology, while the control group adopted the traditional ideological and political education in colleges and universities. The Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory (MMPI) was used to calculate schizophrenia symptom scores, and statistical software SAS was used for data analysis and comparison.

Over the course of six months, the schizophrenia score scale in the control group changed from 65 to 63, while the schizophrenia score scale in the experimental group changed from 67 to 58. In the experimental group, the symptoms of patients with schizophrenia were significantly relieved (P<0.05). The experimental results show that the application of educational psychology to ideological and political education in colleges and universities has a significant impact on college students with schizophrenia.

The application of educational psychology in ideological and political teaching in colleges and universities has obvious positive effects on college students with schizophrenia, and provides a potential treatment method. The results of this study provide a reference for ideological and political teaching in colleges and universities and the alleviation of schizophrenia symptoms.

Henan medical science and technology research project (No.LHGJ20200150).