American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 33
- Number 3
- July 1979
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages331–338Bilingualism is known to affect the communicative behavior of the individual. This paper describes the implications of the bilingual experience for the process of dynamic psychotherapy, and presents recommendations to psychotherapists treating the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.331Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages339–353Physical or sexual abuse of children is a psychopathic situation wherein both the abused child and the problem parent require collateral therapy with the eventual aim of rehabilitating the family by reinstating the child. The abusive diathesis of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.339Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages354–364The role of psychotherapy for psychosomatic patients is reviewed. Barriers to treatment, including special characteristics of these patients that make them poor candidates for traditional psychodynamic interventions, are discussed with implications for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.354Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages365–377Typescripts of 10-minute segments of psychotherapy sessions often reveal instances where the therapist made incorrect statements that got the patient off his track. Tracking errors are classified and their effects described. By learning to recognize such ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.365Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages378–390Adolescent individuation is frequently signified by acting out independent and dependent strivings. There can be a struggle with attachment to parents who do not acknowledge the adolescent’s emerging identity. A narcissistic bond can develop between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.378Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages391–403Clinical experience shows that many patients diagnosed as having a borderline personality structure show a history of minimal brain dysfunction in childhood. Neurologically based dysfunctions create disruptions of drive level, perception, basic language ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.391Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages404–417The intense therapeutic encirclement maneuvers possible in long-term inpatient therapy of the borderline patient frequently stimulate emotionalflooding and intense negative therapeutic reactions. Such reactions have understandable precipitants: a mixture ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.404Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages418–427In narcissistic individuals the grandiose self persists, making impossible demands for omnipotence. This often results in inability to tolerate any endeavor which requires sustained effort and repeated trial and error. Among narcissistic college students, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.418Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages428–441When a parent dies the surviving parent and children are often unable to work together to cope with the loss. We propose that this situation arises from their inability to accept the finality of death. Parents and children have difficulty adjusting to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.428Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages442–452The author presents how his interest on the general subject of selfdisclosures in therapy evolved. Literature on this subject is reviewed with particular attention to intercurrent events in the therapist’s life that may affect ongoing psychotherapy. Six ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.442Case Report
Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages453–463The literature on the psychodynamics and treatment of transsexualism indicates a pathological mother-son relationship, yet uniformly recommends a male therapist. A case of a six-year-old boy with transsexual symptoms treated by a female therapist is ...
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