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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 29
  • Number 4
  • October 1975

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages466–476

Psychodynamics of personality and ego development are related to motor development. The body image concept, important for normal psychologic performance is often impaired by somatic or cerebral defects. Adolescents are particularly depressed by loss of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.466

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages477–484

Clinical material from experimental tape sessions is used further to delineate a crucial variable in psychotherapy research: the degree to which the therapist meets the patient’s need for intervention. Several discrete needs for intervention are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.477

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages485–502

The author feels that the perpetuation of poverty is not adequately explained by the popular theories of recent years, that is, social oppression and cultural deprivation, including maternal deprivation. Impaired verbal development and a lack of inner ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.485

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages503–523

Beginning in the 1930’s all Western psychologic theories, especially psychoanalysis, were labeled reactionary. Pavlov’s theory remained as the sole “truly materialistic” basis for Soviet psychotherapy. Only in recent years has theoretical research shown ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.503

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages524–534

The Gestalt approach with alcoholics is different from other, traditional approaches. Its emphasis on growth, awareness, and self-support is aided through some simple guides. Several guides are suggested which have been used with this population and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.524

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages535–549

Research Interruption in Programmed Psychotherapy introduces a directive intervention into personally maladaptive patterns of behavior while supporting constructive alternatives. Observations, results, and follow-up on 50 patients are given. Benefit ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.535

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages550–557

The philosophy of brief therapy in a city hospital setting is outlined. Therapists frequently resist a brief and active approach and offer rationalizations against it. Most patients, however, seek only symptom alleviation or problem solving, and not ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.550

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages558–566

Abandonment in love brings with it considerable psychiatric casualty. Although time usually heals, it may also reinforce psycho pathologic attitudes. The main task of psychotherapy is to offer an explanation, stretched over time, which is emotionally ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.558

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages567–574

This paper describes a therapist’s experience in moving his analytically oriented psychotherapy practice from an exclusive private setting to the psychiatric floor of a busy general hospital. The ways in which different patients react to this similar ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.567

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages575–592

Four related techniques for doing brief psychotherapy with medical students are described, which capitalize on styles of ego adaptation and defense characteristic of this population. These styles involve use of intellectual mastery and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.575

Publication date: 01 October 1975

Pages593–602

A patient in brief psychotherapy told of a sexual advance made to her now by a former psychotherapist. Computer testing predicted her motivation and behavior accurately. A number of related issues in professional ethics and in dynamic psychology are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.4.593

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