American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 30
- Number 3
- July 1976
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages366–384The paper is concerned with some of the factors that will probably influence sexual behavior at the end of this century and in the beginning of the next. These include changes in family structure, marriage, male-female relationships, effects of large ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.366Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages385–397This paper is a critical evaluation of the nature and meaning of various radical changes in sexual customs and behavior and their clinical consequences. The author contends that many of the revolutional changes demonstrate a complete and disastrous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.385Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages398–421Psychiatrists and others have too often discounted reports of sexual attacks upon children and ascribed the incident to fantasy. The author’s experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia’s rape victim clinics indicates that these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.398Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages422–432In the framework of a symposium on changing sexual behavior in a changing society problems are discussed which the modified mores have created for a number of individuals or groups, for therapeutic intervention and research concepts. Examples, assumed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.422Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages433–440Social changes have occurred so rapidly and in such magnitude as to invalidate previously effective coping mechanisms and to reduce the supporting factors in the social milieu. Concomitant with these changes has been an increase in adolescent sexual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.433Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages441–451In a seventeen-month field study thirty-three male prostitutes were interviewed and tentatively classified into four categories: call-boys, street prostitutes, bar hustlers, and kept boys. These classifications, though flexible, were deemed useful in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.441Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages452–462Gossip, a phenomenon as old as history itself, is reflected upon in terms of its need-fulfilling functions for persons and social groups. It is seen as one of the sources of knowledge about life that has potentials for wisdom, and its interpersonal and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.452Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages463–472A case is presented of a patient telepathically perceiving a stressful event in the analyst’s life. Evidence for this is a dream of the patient that embodied a similar content and affect. It is hypothesized that the patient’s telepathic ability derived ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.463Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages473–482Mental and physical illnesses are compared and contrasted and reasons for the stigma attached to seeing a psychiatrist are discussed. Psychiatrists appear to share in the responsibility for perpetuating such a stigma. VIP’s and others are sometimes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.473Case Report
Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages483–496This presentation of excerpts from the literature synthesizes many suggestions by various therapists concerning the treatment methods of borderline psychotic children. The importance of providing a stable, auxiliary ego for the child to introject emerges ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.483