American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 35
- Number 1
- January 1981
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages5–15Benefit 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.1981.35.1.5Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages16–26The 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.1981.35.1.16Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages27–37A 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.1981.35.1.27Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages38–46This 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.1981.35.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages47–60Chronic 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.1981.35.1.47Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages61–75This 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.1981.35.1.61Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages76–85This 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.1981.35.1.76Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages86–92Cognitive 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.1981.35.1.86Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages93–100A 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.1981.35.1.93Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages155–156https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.155Case Report
Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages101–106A 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.1981.35.1.101Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages107–112The “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.1981.35.1.107Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages113–120A 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.1981.35.1.113Book Review
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Pages141–142https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.141Abstracts
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Pages150–151https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.1.150Notes and Comments
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