American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 29
- Number 1
- January 1975
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages4–13Resistance to using limited goal, brief psychotherapy often rests upon the mythology that a patient’s problems must require a great deal of time for resolution. This paper offers a suitable rationale and methodology for psychotherapists to exercise their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.4Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages14–25A particular personality type, the victimizer, is an important component of destructive conflict. A victimizer syndrome includes a deep sense of deprivation and loss with a need for restitution, and a perception of the self as ineffectual in producing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.14Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages26–36Eight physiologic parameters were correlated with global ratings of affect intensity in four psychotherapeutic interviews with one patient. Highly significant covariation of affect with five of the eight physiologic parameters was obtained. It was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.26Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages37–55The development of the thinking processes from childhood to maturity is analyzed and three stages are distinguished: the magic omnipotent stage of the preschool child, the development of the realistic ego, and the future-directed value-building superego. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.37Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages56–65The psychotherapeutic approach to sadomasochism is discussed with clinical examples. The necessary attributes of the therapist and specific therapeutic techniques are emphasized so as to avoid the destructive, uncontrollable negative therapeutic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.56Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages66–71Interviewing behaviors of psychiatrists representing the Gestalt, Psychoanalytic, Kleinian and Jungian schools of psychotherapy are rated using the Truax-Carkhuff measures of accurate empathy, nonpossessive warmth and genuineness. Although similarities of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.66Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages72–78An operant conditioning orientation and a psychoanalytic one are compared, in terms of differences and likenesses, on a number of dimensions. A few ideas are offered as to why advocates of each approach have generated more heat than light in their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.72Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages79–91Behaviorist principles operate observably in all aspects of animal life, hence in all therapies and in the community at large. Application of these principles strengthens treatment, notably with unsophisticated clients and sociopaths commonly encountered ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.79Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages92–100If psychotherapy is defined as “interpersonal method of mitigating suffering” then many psychotherapeutic systems have existed in India a long time. Unlike Western systems, these have lacked a clinical bias but have provided a more global framework. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.92Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages101–106Of 12 otherwise healthy individuals facing honorable discharge from the military because of intractable sleepwalking, six chose to participate in a short-term treatment program involving hypnosis. Four of these reported total alleviation of symptoms. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.101Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages107–116An art-drama therapy group for latency-age boys made possible the exploration of personal symbols and intense fantasies which resulted in a therapeutically powerful and productive experience. This paper describes the background, rationale, and dynamic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.107Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages117–127This article describes common life-history themes and intervention strategies with 25 patients who seemed over eager to regard themselves as mentally ill and had aggressively sought treatment for more than two years with little improvement. What they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.117Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages128–133This article illustrates how the assessment of the level and degree of dependency in psychotherapy can be used as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool. Dependency varies with the stage of psychosexual development, with the degree and state of illness, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.128Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages138–139https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.1.138Case Report
Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages134–137Men frequently relate to women as either “sanctified” and hence, asexual, or as sexual, and therefore “degraded.” A case is presented demonstrating a similar finding in a woman. The uncovering of the “Devil-Priest Syndrome” during psychotherapy is ...
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