American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Thirty-six patients who had hypochondriacal neurosis for six months or longer were treated with individual psychotherapy. The therapy focused mainly on: accurate information about the psychophysiologic processes involved, emphasis on the innocuousness of ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

The rate of adolescent suicides has been increasing over the past decade. This article is a review of the literature regarding the adolescent who attempts suicide with emphasis on the underlying pathology and shows that a true adolescent suicide attempt ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Selection criteria are outlined for five forms of brief psychotherapy—crisis intervention, psychodynamic, problem-solving, marital/family, and behavior. Indications, patient enabling factors, and contraindications are suggested for each. This is organized ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

The authors review the history of the concept of borderline children and the criteria for diagnosis. They then outline the various stages of the treatment of these children, paying particular attention to the vicissitudes of the psychotherapeutic ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

While enormous strides have been made in clinical psychopharmacologic research during the past decade, fundamental improvements in methodologic and experimental designs are needed, if we are to have meaningful progress in the future. The challenges noted ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Some orientations in African psychotherapy were examined. The holistic concept in a therapeutic context and the community network approach to treatment are discussed. The paper presents the individual in African psychotherapy as one whose disease ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

This article describes the use of paradoxical interventions with patients who have had an impressive history of prior treatment failure. Six brief case studies are presented which illustrate different interventions such as: prescribing the symptom; ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Group psychotherapy has proven to be an ideal setting for treatment, observation, and evaluation of gender-dysphoric patients prior to, during, and after sex reassignment surgery. Forty-three percent of the patients seen in the Case Western Reserve ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

This article describes the progress of severely regressed inpatients as part of a graded group treatment program. Leaders must actively initiate structure, formulate goals, and emphasize the eventual “graduation” of patients to higher-level groups. ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

The rational and irrational aspects of fear in the countertransference will be discussed. Arguments are presented for the potent force of fear in personality development and psychotherapy hitherto underemphasized in the literature. Manifestations of ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

A review of court rulings on psychotherapists reveals that: privilege of communication may be overruled; lawsuits may be brought against psychiatrists because they were unable to curb their countertransference and because they had had sexual encounters ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

This paper speculates on the origins of the slang term “headshrinker,” commonly used to designate and devalue a psychiatrist. It is concluded that the term was coined shortly after World War II. The term serves to lessen patients’ anxiety over their view ...

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Publication date: 01 April 1982

Successful psychotherapy with a potentially filicidal woman is described. The case clearly illustrates how childhood incestuous experiences may later result in the formation of filicidal impulses. This occurred when the patient’s daughter reached the age ...

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Publication date: 01 April 1982

Publication date: 01 April 1982