American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 33
- Number 2
- April 1979
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages161–173Women have been victims of violence throughout history. Freud’s theory of masochism stated that women enjoyed suffering, and until very recently the mental health profession went along with this universal human tendency to blame the victim. In this paper ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.161Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages174–189The recent growth of violence toward women, including rape, assault, wife-battering, and marital rape, has raised questions of whether any personality trait or psychological difficulty furthers their vulnerability. Freud’s concept of feminine masochism is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.174Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages190–200Violence against women is viewed in terms of the past and present and projected as it is likely to be in the future. Those factors that have determined the overall relationships between men and women are reviewed in an attempt to explain rape and wife-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.190Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages201–213Character disorders in children may arise from abuse or neglect by the family or from stresses of the broader social environment. Physically handicapped and mentally retarded children have innate disabilities that predispose them to problematic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.201Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages214–238The psychodynamics and sociodynamics of gender-dysphoric states are examined. The hypotheses (including pathology in the mother-child relationship; defective object relations; aggression and sexuality, etc.) are based on a four-year clinical investigation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.214Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages239–262This article offers a review of the psychoanalytic and psychiatric literature on symptom formation and individual and collective character changes triggered by war or by similarly violent civil upheaval. It is suggested that each such event should be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.239Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages263–280Certain personality defects noted during psychoanalytic therapy are expressions of temperament. Using a 72-item temperament index, the author analyzed 101 patients with respect to depressive, irritable, manic, paranoid and schizoid subscales. At least one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.263Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages281–290Drug abuse is an attempt to resolve through the use of chemicals the psychic disequilibrium caused by intrapersonal (narcissistic) losses. The chemical equilibrium creates a false sense of quiet which retards the completion of the process of mourning for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.281Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages291–302The gains and losses deriving from the separation of the diagnostic process from psychotherapy proper are discussed, especially as that applies to patients who are seen within an institutional setting. These gains and losses are viewed from the standpoint ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.291Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages303–311As the behavioral model becomes liberalized and more encompassing very different frameworks may offer treatment resources. Several treatment techniques derived from cognitive-dissonance theory are discussed in the context of relevant theoretical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.303Book Review
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