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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 37
  • Number 4
  • October 1983

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages456–475

This paper is a review of a 17-year study of 1,465 patients who had severe masked depression. It offers a description of the most frequently found symptoms and signs that are characteristic of patients with this disorder. A very distinctive syndrome is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.456

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages476–492

Psychoanalysis has passed through several dialectic steps of development. At present, it appears invigorated by social needs such as accountability and by object-relations theory and self-psychology. As the most rigorous application of causality to the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.476

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages493–501

The relative loss of interest in individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia is being replaced with a more careful reassessment of its value. This article presents some of the author’s views on process and personal characteristics which are important in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.493

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages502–520

The paper reviews studies of the effectiveness of antidepressants in acute depression and variables accounting for nonresponsiveness. Data supporting continuation and maintenance therapy are presented. The authors discuss nonspecific psychotherapeutic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.502

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages521–532

The authors sketch the development of antipsychotic-drug treatment for schizophrenic patients focusing on efficacy in acute treatment, prevention of relapse during maintenance treatment, and differential symptom response. They also describe current ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.521

Case Report

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages533–543

A six-year-old girl with a three-year history of seizures came to psychotherapy because of a progressively worsening behavior disorder. She was adjudged to have a severe reactive narcissistic disorder in response to her uncontrollable seizures. During the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.533

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages544–551

The psychotherapeutic possibilities were explored in an experimental community mental health center covering a rural, secluded district in Greece. Cultural difficulties and visualization of the therapist as a protective figure produced some initial ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.544

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages552–566

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), a short-term treatment developed and tested for use with ambulatory depressed patients, has been successfully applied to elderly patients in a recent pilot study. Case reports of treated elderly patients are presented ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.552

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages567–581

Individual and cotherapy sessions were compared via questionnaires and tape recordings to assess differences in attitudes and therapy process. Results showed that therapists view multiple therapy more positively, do not observe differences in process in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.567

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages582–592

A large number of cases in analytically oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalysis were studied to determine the developmental consequences of parent loss by death or continuous separation in childhood. The cumulative evidence from this data is that the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.582

Publication date: 01 October 1983

Pages593–610

Thirty psychotherapie s with survivors of a devastating supper club fire were studied. Treatments were judged in terms of level of completeness, traumatic symptomatology, therapist experience, and therapist sensitivity to the particular disaster ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.593

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