American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 32
- Number 2
- April 1978
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages172–200Suicidal behavior in the United States from 1900 through 1975 is reviewed. The data presented cover demographic variables such as: age, sex, color, and geographic area. While the overall suicide rate continues to increase, the most striking upturn can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.172Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages201–219This article reviews the cognitive therapy of depression. The psychotherapy based on this theory consists of behavioral and verbal techniques to change cognitions, beliefs, and errors in logic in the patient’s thinking. A few of the various techniques are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.201Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages220–242This is a study of 1000 patients with severe agitated depressions who were treated with tranylcypromine on an ambulatory basis during a period of 13 years. It was administered in combination with tranquilizers, usually trifluoperazine. Tranylcypromine is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.220Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages243–251The author postulates that depression exists in adolescents, with the level of ego development producing varying clinical pictures. Therapy is based upon the psychoanalytic theory of personality development. Individual treatment is based on age and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.243Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages252–269Loss and abandonment and distortions of the self-image have special significance for the causation and treatment of depression during adolescence. The management of the manipulative suicidal adolescent and some psychological aspects of pharmacotherapy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.252Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages270–275A hypothesis is proposed that the nonpsychotic patient in the presuicidal state may have impaired reality testing in which the act of suicide is perceived as not leading to injury or death. Impaired reality testing may be enhanced by intense affects, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.270Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages276–287This paper deals with a six-year experience of group therapy for parents of leukemic children. The group, which includes the hospital staff, strengthens the role of parents, doctors, and nurses. Group therapy is seen as a preventive measure in the sense ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.276Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages288–299A husband-wife co-therapist team, in clinical collaboration with rheumatologists of the Phoenix Arthritis Center, has instituted a brief inpatient group therapy program in an arthritis unit of a general medical hospital. Problems of initiating the group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.288Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages300–306This case history presents a treatment procedure for a nine-year-old girl who masturbated in the classroom. A fading procedure within a behavioral management contract was implemented which proved to be effective. One-, three-, six-, and nine-month follow-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.300Publication date: 01 April 1978
Pages307–319A patient with highly limited options for psychotherapy, who was moreover not an ideal candidate for standard forms of therapy, was nevertheless able to maintain an effective, if unusual, therapeutic relationship of long duration. The combination of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1978.32.2.307Book Review
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