American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 37
- Number 1
- January 1983
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages5–23This review provides information on psychosocial and biomedical phenomena associated with increased vulnerability to physical and mental dysfunctions. Health care personnel need to be aware of this area of research, for it is generating data of high ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.5Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages24–36Therapists’ responses to suicidal patients include: anxiety, increased interest, restraint, irritation, avoidance, denial, and passivity. The psychopathology of such patients includes excessive attachment, regression, dependence, sensitivity to rejection ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.24Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages37–48Psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers are doing equal numbers of hours of self-defined psychotherapy. The spread of psychotherapeutic services across these and at least four other professions has been accompanied by a growing ambiguity about ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.37Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages49–61Borderline patients’ strategies to control the therapist frequently represent transferential enactments of developmental experiences in symbiosis and early differentiation. The therapist comes to be regarded as full and omnipotent and the self as empty, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.49Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages62–68People must relate to time and the manner in which they do is often a reflection of their object relationships and level of development. The patient’s relationship to and utilization of time during the final minutes of psychotherapy sessions provide a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages69–76Freud’s admonition to psychoanalysts to be like a mirror or surgeon has been excessively adhered to, so that psychotherapists have become unduly unresponsive. A host of petty restrictive practices about hours, fees, vacations, etc., has constricted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.69Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages77–85As a result of racism black males face internal and external obstacles that possibly cause psychic conflicts. The authors reviewed this topic from a theoretical perspective. Events that would precipitate the black males’ need for psychotherapy; where he ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.77Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages86–99The article discusses the use of individual psychotherapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorders among Vietnam combat veterans. Three case summaries are presented that illustrate various ways in which the disorder may be manifested and show the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.86Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages100–112A psychodynamic/behavioral workshop was developed to help stepparents and their partners cope with the intrapsychic stess and interpersonal problems that result from the formation of a new family unit. This paper identifies conflict areas, elucidates ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.100Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages113–120The addition of multiple-family-therapy group sessions to ongoing latency-age and parallel groups resulted in more effective group processes. Parental involvement in the treatment program was enhanced and communication between parents, children, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.113Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages121–128The intensity, continuity, and comprehensive nature of life on an inpatient unit makes it an excellent setting in which to teach residents the principles and practice of dynamic psychotherapy. Certain conditions of structure and function of a teaching ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.121Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages137–139https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.137Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages163–164https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.163Case Report
Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages129–136A thorough analysis of the incest literature reveals a complex family disorder, one which is multifactorial in nature and etiology. A case history is presented which focuses on the importance of the preoedipal mother-daughter relationship in some cases ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.129Book Review
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Pages149–150https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.149Abstracts
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Pages151–158https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.151Publication date: 01 January 1983
Pages158–162https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.158Past Issues
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