American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 30
- Number 1
- January 1976
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages4–13The concept of balance-of-power vulnerability is proposed as a heuristic tool to understand the varying states of anxiety which occur when America’s national integrity or security is threatened. Corresponding to the different states of vulnerability are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.4Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages14–28A conceptual model of the strategies and techniques of family therapy is presented. Attention is drawn to the complex relationships between the family therapist’s manner of relating, the strategies and techniques which he or she employs, the presenting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.14Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages29–40Patients of lower socioeconomic status are only infrequently considered for individual psychodynamic psychotherapy even where cost is not a factor. Reasons for this bias are examined and suggestions are made for correcting such inadvertent discrimination.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.29Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages41–54According to Abhidhamma, a classical Asian phenomenology of consciousness, through meditation a set of “healthy” mental properties reciprocally inhibits an “unhealthy” set. In light of Abhidhamma and empirical findings, applications of meditation are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages55–72This article discusses the theory and operations of Gestalt Therapy from the viewpoint of learning theory. General comparative issues are elaborated as well as the concepts of introjection, retroflexion, confluence, and projection. Principles and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.55Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages73–84Several clinical vignettes illustrate types of resistive children and adolescents: the shrugger, the silent child, the rose-colored-glass child, the mistrustful adolescent, the cheater and rule changer, the thrower. Several joining techniques are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.73Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages85–94An obsessive-compulsive patient was treated with modified analytic therapy to enable him to complete his first college year. As an assistant professor, he returned 19 years later complaining of retarded ejaculation. Traditional psychotherapy (52 sessions) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.85Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages95–102This paper stresses the group treatment of psychotics, with special reference to the schizophrenic. It includes interrelated groups structured on a graded scale and differentiated by the degree of its members’ regressive levels of fixation. The patients’ ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.95Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages103–111Orgone (Reichian) therapy, which utilizes a unique physical approach in addition to standard character-analysis, is illustrated in cases of muscle contraction (tension) headache. It offers a more direct technique for attacking the muscular tension (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.103Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages112–120Experience with a seminar demonstrating psychotherapy, interviews with 12 of the treated patients, and a survey of 23 residents have shown the value of this teaching method and its effect on the participants. Generally the patients felt helped and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.112Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages121–135The psychodynamic experience of the Vietnam trooper is described and emotionally evoked by the author, who is both a psychiatrist and a combat veteran of that war. It is shown how that experience continues to affect the lives of these men. The special ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.121Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages136–146The study of a case of Capgras syndrome with striking clinical features illuminates the reality elements, affective conflicts, and cognitive processes that go into forming this specific delusion; and raises questions about the nosologic uniqueness of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.136Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages181–182https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.181Notes and Comments
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Pages183–187https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.183Book Review
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Pages177–180https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.1.177Past Issues
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