American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 30
- Number 2
- April 1976
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages194–205Supported by extensive clinical data of three generations, the hypothesis is advanced that Minimal Brain Dysfunction is the major etiologic and pathogenic factor for one subgroup of adult schizophrenics. Genetic factors apparently play the main but not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.194Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages206–217Social and technologic changes are occurring at an ever-increasing rate. Psychodynamic and psychosocial problems that are likely to occur in our future society are considered in relation to certain determinant forces. The paper also considers the concept ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.206Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages218–235The educational, sociologic and economic justifications for a recent decision to require an internship type of postgraduate experience in psychiatric training are discussed. There are many practical disadvantages to adding this requirement. Depending on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.218Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages236–255Use of enemas for sexual stimulation has been observed and named klismaphilia. Some klismaphiliacs indulge their taste for enemas in otherwise normal sexual settings. Others combine it with fetishes, excretory and otherwise, or with masturbation. Still ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.236Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages256–266Problems experienced by women whose alcoholic husbands have recently become sober are pervasive and varied. During the years of active alcoholism, a pattern develops of allowing other family members’ needs to take priority. Group therapy, emphasizing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.256Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages267–275This paper is concerned with the therapeutic problems posed by the troubled “medical” marriage. Based on the authors’ clinical experiences, certain common characteristics of these marriages are identified. Obstacles to early referral such as self-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.267Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages276–288This paper describes two modes that an effective psychiatrist uses in understanding his patients. One mode is termed the rational-active, and the other sensuous-receptive. These modes present special problems in psychiatric education. The best teaching ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.276Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages289–293Carl G. Jung considers dreams as (a) aids to restoring and maintaining mental health, (b) as scientific insights into psychic causality, (c) as symbolic representations of one’s actual subjective state and (d) as expressions of “telepathic visions” In ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.289Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages294–302Eighty patients, from four university-based psychiatric outpatient departments, were seen for four to six weeks by medical students. Eighty-two percent of the patients reported “some” to “marked” improvement. The four groups were studied to determine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.294Case Report
Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages303–316The history of a childhood foot fetishist is discussed from a developmental, psychodynamic, and therapeutic point of view. Therapy revealed that the symptom, while initially created in response to parental pathology, later led to specific defense ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.303The Eclectic and Multiple Therapy of a Shoe Fetishist: Annotated Briefs by the Client and Therapists
Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages317–326This case history presents not only the therapists’ point of view but also the client’s. Four critical periods during therapy with a shoe fetishist were described by the two therapists and the client. The results of this procedure suggest that it is a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.2.317Notes and Comments
Book Review
Abstracts
Publication date: 01 April 1976
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