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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 30
  • Number 4
  • October 1976

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages552–560

The English-speaking clinician frequently evaluates and treats patients whose mother tongue is not English. This paper summarizes some of the evidence supporting an emotional-detachment effect associated with speaking in a second language and describes ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.552

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages561–569

The symptom-formation process involves a complex interaction between internal symbolic expression and secondary reinforcing consequences in the patient’s environment. Symptoms are considered from a practical clinical perspective integrating behavioral and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.561

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages570–575

A major issue in the psychotherapy of the chronically suicidal is the patient’s avoidance of his responsibility. If the patient is not helped to recognize this avoidance, the therapist’s efforts may be consigned to future attempts to either assume ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.570

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages576–582

The many Turkish villagers who now migrate to large Turkish cities or enter the European labor force try to create models of the extended families they leave behind. Their satellite families necessarily drift away from tradition, however, in the direction ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.576

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages583–592

Supervision of the female psychotherapy neophyte is discussed in relation to sex role-exacerbated ambivalence toward the transition from classroom passive-dependency to self-reliance as a professional clinician. Supervisors are alerted to hostile-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.583

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages593–600

Some themes of survivorhood are discussed in relation to their effects on the supervisory process. The focus of this paper is on the intrusive themes of survivor shame, survivor rage, and survivor panic. Three illustrative case examples are presented.

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.593

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages601–607

The hard-of-hearing psychotherapist is faced with special problems not faced by other therapists. This paper discusses these in a framework of reality, transference, and countertransference difficulties. Possible solutions are offered. The need of the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.601

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages608–622

The study analyzes the treatment by copsychotherapy of 56 individual patients carried out by a male-female therapist pair. The therapeutic contributions of the female cotherapist are scored (from evidence in the process notes) in terms of thirteen factors,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.608

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages623–630

The question of neutrality in psychotherapy is considered in the light of original historical psychoanalytic attitudes, and present usual practices. A disparity between what is reported and what is done is examined, and explanations for its existence are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.623

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages631–640

Sadism has been for a long time, among psychoanalytic and other writers, the subject of extensive theorizing and controversy. This paper takes a fresh look at the many dimensions (sexual, characterological, neurotic, psychotic, neurological) of this old ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.631

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages641–657

The individual is encased in an existential, phenomenological space that has the capacity to contract or expand, to isolate itself, or to join with others. An analysis is provided of how this individual space capsule functions under varying circumstances, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.641

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages658–665

The paper describes the changes produced in the practice of dynamic psychotherapy when conducted within a circumscribed region. The authors discuss changes in anonymity, roles, and transference relationships for both therapist and patient. The paper ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.658

Case Report

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Pages666–674

A case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis which developed in a young woman after she had viewed the fetus expelled during a therapeutic abortion with hypertonic saline is reported. The treatment, involving both psychodynamic psychotherapy and behavior ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.666

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