What Is Intensive Psychotherapy?

Richard D. Chessick, M.D., Ph.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 35, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.4.489

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Mental health and mental illness are approached as based on relatively successful or disordered ego functioning. Psychotherapies are classified in terms of their approach to the ego. Intensive psychotherapy is compared with other forms of psychotherapy on the one hand, and formal psychoanalysis on the other. The basic premises of this form of treatment and the special indications for it are discussed.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 35 • Number 4 • 1981, pp. 465–612

Pages: 489 - 501

PubMed: 7325263

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Published in print: 1981, pp. 465–612

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Richard D. Chessick, M.D., Ph.D.^*

Evanston, Ill.

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Professor of Psychiatry, Northwestern University; Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago. Mailing address: Suite 628, 636 Church Street, Evanston, Ill. 60201

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What Is Intensive Psychotherapy?

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