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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 31
  • Number 1
  • January 1977

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages11–18

Women’s personal values as well as societal values regarding them have been undergoing significant changes. This trend is supported by recent rapid technological advances reaching into home and working place, by the development of birth-control measures ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.11

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages19–35

This paper develops and describes encounters with dying patients and their families and looks for consensus of patterns and responses of possible help in confronting this situation. It offers positive suggestions for those providing care for dying ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.19

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages36–42

A method for working through the mourning of the parent in psychoanalytic therapy is described. The method permits focusing on the patient’s relationship to the imago as it manifests itself during the mourning. The internal shifting that results permits a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.36

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages43–65

A comprehensive overview of the past and present state of psychiatry in India, as well as of its successes and limitations, is presented. The degree of awareness and acceptance by different sectors of the Indian population is discussed. The influence of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.43

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages66–75

Sex stereotypes, clinical observations, and psychoanalytic theory of sex differences are presented. Stereotypes show differences in areas of inhibition and clinical observations, differences related to the phallic and genital phases in psychosexual ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.66

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages76–82

How do patients who had brief behavior therapy evaluate change in themselves as compared to those who had brief psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy a year following termination of their treatment? Results of the follow-up study reveal that over-all, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.76

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages83–96

Psychotherapy is seen as a series of cognitive-emotional interactions whose emotional impact on the patient serves as the principal reinforcement at certain phases of therapy. This paper examines techniques of interaction common to all psychotherapies, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.83

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages97–104

Men with a grandiose self-concept may develop secondary impotence that does not respond to sex therapy. The impotence occurs in response to a more self-assertive stance taken by their wives. The more common form of impotence is also presented and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.97

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages105–115

The family system can accommodate itself only to a certain amount of change in one of its members without manifesting a need to reorganize itself. The family response to such a change in one of its members is documented via three case examples in patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.105

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages116–124

Dealing with the range of events encountered by mental health professionah requires both anatomic/physiologic and psychologic/behavioral viewpoints. These viewpoints belong to two different universes of discourse, and their languages are not mutually ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.116

Case Report

Publication date: 01 January 1977

Pages125–137

A 34-year-old woman with an organic psychosis was presumed to be suffering from corticosteroid psychosis because of prednisone treatment for urticaria. Lupus was found to be the cause of both urticaria and psychosis. The lupus psychosis was reversed when ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.1.125

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