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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 35
  • Number 1
  • January 1981

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages5–15

Benefit payments and numbers of clients on the disability payrolls have substantially increased, while the numbers and proportions of those terminating because of recovery or rehabilitation have steadily decreased. The powerful effects of compensation on ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.5

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages16–26

The author describes the therapeutic pitfalls in child therapy of paradoxical naughtiness and destructive behaviors due to unrecognized guilt. The development of the loving and prohibitive superego resulting in guilt in children is described. A case ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.16

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages27–37

A blind, crossover design was used to evaluate specialized hypnotherapy for the treatment of severe sleepwalking. The subjects, who were free of significant psychiatric illness, responded well to six brief sessions. Follow-up of one year has revealed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.27

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages38–46

This article aims to encourage the systematic exploration of self-esteem as an empirical foundation for expanding our understanding of human motivation in daily life as well as in the psychotherapeutic situation. It is suggested that self-esteem is a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.38

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages47–60

Chronic patients in the state hospital have been receiving minimal treatment mainly due to the lack of an appropriate diagnostic and treatment model. By considering stages of development and the problems of the chronic patient, the present report ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.47

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages61–75

This article describes an empirically based conceptualization of psychotherapeutic treatment for narcotics addiction. A target approach to the mulitifacetedproblems is discussed with reference to the current literature on psychological interventions with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.61

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages76–85

This article reviews the effect of sexual therapy on the existing professional ethical standards and debates its legal implications. It questions the validity of the arguments of the patient-plaintiff who supports his case on the alleged abuse of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.76

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages86–92

Cognitive techniques rely heavily on methods of verbal persuasion to help clients recognize the role of maladaptive thought in subjective distress and to facilitate the development of an adaptive belief system. The present article discusses those ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.86

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages93–100

A theoretical point of view is presented which emphasizes the effects of psychic trauma on the organization of memory, drives, and affects. Using illustrative material from a case of father-daughter incest, the usefulness of this point of view for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.93

Case Report

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages101–106

A psychotherapeutic approach to the treatment of a delusion, infestation by parasites, is presented. The treatment process enables the patient to make a transition from a somatic complaint to a self-realization of psychic pain. The authors maintain that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.101

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages107–112

The “partial transsexual” is described as a person who has begun the surgical and hormonal process of sex change but, for varying reasons, has failed to complete the process, therefore being neither male nor female. A clinical history is presented to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.107

Publication date: 01 January 1981

Pages113–120

A case of multiple personality has been reported from India and the condition compared with hysterical possession state. The documented high incidence of hysterical possession in India has been related to religious beliefs of polytheism and reincarnation ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.113

Book Review

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