American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 29
- Number 3
- July 1975
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages308–326The treatment of patients with suicidal drives and ideas is often less than adequate due to theoretic and technical prejudices. This paper describes the requirements that one who treats suicidal patients should meet. The phases of treatment and aims of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.308Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages327–338This article discusses the psycho dynamic significance of suicide in the young, the family constellations that produce such suicides, the psychosocial forces contributing to the dramatic rise in the suicide rate of young people, and the special problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.327Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages339–344Suicide figures are generally underestimated, more so for children and adolescents than for adults. Yet suicide among adolescents has shown the greatest rise for any age group. Every youngster who attempts or threatens suicide should have a thorough ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.339Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages345–354This paper examines the Crisis Intervention Therapy developed by Dr. Kiev’s Cornell Program, for the management of depressed and suicidal patients. Combining chemotherapy with supportive psychotherapy, he emphasizes the acquisition of Life Strategy Skills,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.345Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages355–362The article attempts to identify the basic mechanism of depression as implied by various clinical formulations of depression. In this context, depression appears to result from a faulty system of thinking, developed during the individual’s formative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.355Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages363–368Patients’ reasons for their suicide attempts were categorized and related to levels of hopelessness and depression. The findings are discussed in the light of the psychotherapy of suicidal individuals.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.363Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages369–382Therapy is applied politics. From hospitalizing a patient to offering psychoanalytic insight, a therapist’s every action reflects his own attitudes toward political issues, including individual freedom vs. state control, or capitalism versus socialism. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.369Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages383–390Psychotic patients’ participation in two kinds of inpatient group therapy, one staff-led, and the other patient-led with staff observing, revealed that patients talked more in the patient-led group than in the traditional staff-led group. Discussion ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.383Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages391–401Several interrelated instances of unethical conduct in mental health professionals, occurring at a psychiatric hospital, serve to highlight the importance of the traditional ethical canons in our field. The impact of ethical breaches upon psychotherapy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.391Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages402–408The findings of behaviorally oriented research regarding the importance of cognitive-motivational variables in hypnosis are examined and some clinical and theoretical implications are explored. Hypnosis seems usefully conceptualized as a complex ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.402Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages409–414The function of insight is independent of content. Insight is the result of the assignment of meaning as distinct from finding meaning. Interpretation leads to insight which binds anxiety and lifts repression, thus providing relief of symptoms. Working ...
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