American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 35
- Number 3
- July 1981
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages311–322The author notes that childhood depression has become an accepted diagnostic entity, an affective disorder related to unipolar and bipolar illnesses. He indicates the importance of trying to distinguish between depression as a symptom and depression as a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.311Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages323–329Diagnostic criteria and instruments for assessment of depression in children are listed; genetic, biochemical, and psychological factors in the etiology of the disorder are briefly reviewed; and the status of psychopharmacological treatment is stated. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.323Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages330–341The organizational characteristics of the family system of psychiatrically hospitalized suicidal latency-age children include lack of generational boundaries, severely conflicted spouse relationships, parental feelings projected onto the child, symbiotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.330Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages342–355Depressive affect and continuing depression do occur in children. Behavioral symptoms can be described as masked depression. Deficient rearing, neglect, and physical and sexual abuse are most significant causes of childhood depression. Suicide and suicide ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.342Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages356–367This paper is an overview on 141 adolescent patients with depressions masked by hypochondriacal symptoms and psychosomatic syndromes. Psychopathologic, psychodynamic and familial factors are enumerated and compared with those seen in adults.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.356Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages368–382Depression in adolescents may be masked by symptoms not commonly found in adults. These symptoms may require, at least initially, a management approach not necessarily in the best interest of treatment of the underlying depression. Suicidal behavior in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.368Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages383–399Etiologically, adolescents considered borderline by the criteria in common use are on a continuum between primarily biological and primary psychological disorders. Depression is common, and may be masked (in many cases of ulcer, anorexia, substance abuse, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.383Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages400–412This study explores the relationship between both classical and “masked” symptoms of depression with the discharge diatignosis of depression. The sample consisted of 10,412 inpatient admissions to a child and adolescent psychiatric municipal hospital. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.400Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages413–418The past advances in the health sciences will be overshadowed by the achievements to be expected by the year 200. A list shows the dates when certain targets will be reached according to the educated guesses of scientists in the respective fields. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.413Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages419–425A distinction is drawn between incomplete grief and grief arising from maturational events such as life-cycle milestones. Treating maturational grief as though it were incomplete grief or using expressions of maturational grief as a sign of important ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.419Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages426–435Observations, by a psychoanalyst who has served as an elected public official, reveal that exposure to conflicting demands from constituents may arouse a sense of depletion. Common reactions are feelings of entitlement and self-indulgent behavior which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.426Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages436–444The current understanding of that peculiar group of people that fit the diagnostic entity called the Munchausen Syndrome is reviewed, and an attempt is made to elucidate their psychodynamics by suggesting that much of their behavior is motivated by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1981.35.3.436Book Review
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