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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 34
  • Number 4
  • October 1980

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages464–476

Since the pioneer contributions were made, approximately three decades ago, psychotherapy of schizophrenia has reached a level of development at which basic principles can be formulated, some procedures have been refined or revised, and new ones added. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.464

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages477–486

Viewing traditional psychoanalytic concepts from a new perspective of kinesics and proxemics gives added insight and freshness. A thumb-nail sketch of the new sciences is drawn. These sciences of nonverbal behavior have been far too neglected by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.477

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages487–495

This paper presents through clinical material a practical conceptual framework in the treatment of silent, nonproductive children. Based on systems theory, the therapist is encouraged to routinely take an inclusive view of the child and his world and make ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.487

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages496–509

This paper moves from general considerations about the task of philosophy and epistemology to specific considerations of the postulates and principles that lie behind certain selected psychotherapeutic systems. In a field in which there is so much ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.496

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages510–522

Money is ubiquitous, and individuals’ attitudes to money are rife with ambivalence and dysphoria. Medical training neglects money issues; thus, many physicians remain with conflicts that interfere greatly with therapeutic potential and cost containment. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.510

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages523–533

This article offers a review of our understanding of the body image, the attack on it by surgical procedures, and the role of itching and scratching in the attempt to reconstruct a new and modified body image after physical alteration by organ loss has ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.523

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages534–544

This paper examines the psychoanalytic concepts of interpretation, resistance, and transference as manifest in gestalt therapy. Although these concepts are de-emphasized, criticized, and disavowed in gestalt theoretical writings, they are actually ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.534

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages545–555

This paper focuses on the supervisory tasks of empathizing with the student so as to appreciate the student’s observations and transferences. It is shown that empathy becomes more difficult to achieve in the training of the foreign graduate whose ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.545

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages556–563

This article studies persistent delusions in schizophrenia as the cognitive aftermath of the primary delusional experience initially described by Karl Jaspers. Distinction between thinking and knowing, as well as concepts of metathinking and erroneous ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.556

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages564–571

A seminar utilizing a videotaped course of actual consecutive psychotherapy sessions with an experienced therapist and his patient has unique advantages in teaching concepts of transference. The experience provides a role model that demonstrates the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.564

Case Report

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages572–580

This case report aims to make psychiatrists aware of the need for a “psychohistorical” approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients who are the third generation of the holocaust, and identify the nature of the multigenerational processes within ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.572

Book Review

Publication date: 01 October 1980

Pages581–585

Philosophy … is not—or, at least, should not be—a ferocious debate between irritable professors. It is a survey of possibilities and their comparison with actualities. In philosophy, the fact, the theory, the alternatives, and the ideal, are weighed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.581

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