American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 36
- Number 3
- July 1982
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages292–303Psychotherapists must be concerned with the manner in which they ascribe responsibility to patients. We tend to avoid conceptualizing this issue, however, and deal with it inconsistently. It is possible to develop a model for ascribing responsibility ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.292Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages304–317Anxiolytic and neuroleptic drugs offer a pharmacotherapeutic approach to the treatment of anxiety. A proper diagnosis and a complete understanding of the clinical picture is essential before choosing the class, specific drug, and dosage. Anxiolytics may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.304Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages318–331Anxiety is viewed as a psychophysiological reaction to an unmastered inner danger that threatens the ego defenses. Severe anxiety is seen as part of an anxiety neurosis. The full-blown phenomenon, i.e., a panic state, cannot be sustained for any length of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.318Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages332–349Is anxiety the prime response to stress in all instances? Can depression be a prime response to stress? This paper is concerned with the relationship of stress to the quantitative degree of anxiety, the various components of anxiety, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.332Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages350–357The complaint of “nerves,” particularly among individuals from Appalachia, illustrates the profound influence of sociocultural factors on expressed symptomatology. Definitive treatment of this disorder must be directed toward prevention, involving major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.350Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages358–370In view of the conservative pattern of benzodiazepine use, its efficacy as a therapeutic alternative, and the relatively low incidence of tolerance and physical-dependence effects associated with benzodiazepine use in therapeutic doses, it is argued that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.358Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages371–378Convulsive therapy is a specific therapy for patients with melancholia and catatonia, with a high success rate. There is little evidence, however, to encourage its use in patients with anxiety, or in the many subtypes of neuroses in which anxiety is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.371Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages379–390The authors describe the history, etiology, demography, symptomatology, and treatment of tics, TS, and other movement disorders, based on a data orientation and their experience with over 650 patients during the past 16 years.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.379Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages391–398This paper reviews the special indications for ECT. Included among these are delusional depression, affective illness which occurs in the geriatric population, depressions which are not responsive to pharmacologic intervention; depressed manic or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.391Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages399–407This is the first report of the effectiveness of psychotherapy in treating adult night-terror patients. Night terrors were eliminated or drastically reduced in two patients who completed psychotherapy. A third patient discontinued therapy and showed no ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.3.399Case Report
Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages408–414This paper discusses difficulties in therapy with a woman who wished to leave her family. Problems were directly related to the act of separation and functioned as resistances to the exploration of intrapsychic conflicts. Therapist reactions are compared ...
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