American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 38
- Number 3
- July 1984
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages319–328The author proposes twenty aphorisms—essential truths—about suicide. From these, some theoretical implications about the psychological nature of suicide as well as some practical implications for psychotherapy with highly lethal individuals are derived. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.319Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages329–340Not all depressed patients attempt suicide, and not all suicidal persons are depressed. Genetic investigations have tried to determine whether suicide has a biological basis independent of depression. Such an approach illustrates some of the important ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.329Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages341–349Efforts to develop patient profiles predicting future suicide fall prey to an inexorable constraint in the statistical properties of rare events: they identify unacceptably large numbers of false positives. Clinical recognition of persons at increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.341Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages350–363The authors review studies related to the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of suicide in adolescents and young adults. The two- to three-fold increase in suicide rates for these groups over the past 25 years is examined from epidemiological, individual, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.350Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages364–372Childhood suicidal behavior requires a multimodal treatment approach that involves individual, family, environmental, and psychopharmacological interventions. The best therapeutic outcome evolves when these modalities are used in combination. Personal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.364Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages373–383Self-report of past suicide attempts was studied in 123 affectively ill outpatients The highest frequency of attempts was found in bipolar women with a history of hospitalization for depression and outpatient treatment for hypomania (BP II), confiming ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.373Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages384–391ECT is valuable in the treatment of appropriately selected cases of suicidal behavior. These are patients with major affective illness. The suicidal threats and concerns of patients with personality disorders are not likely to respond to ECT except in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.384Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages392–398After reviewing the literature on the effects of a patient’s suicide on the treating psychotherapists, we surveyed twenty colleagues who had to deal with such an occurrence. We found that the psychotherapist, as suicide survivor, incorporates this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.392Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages399–412Suicidal children often can be managed without hospitalization. Work with parents is necessary to alter precipitating environmental conditions. Psychotherapy is indicated for the suicidal children who need help in altering aggressive responses to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.399Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages413–430Recent research indicates that panic disorder can be differentiated from other disorders of the anxiety spectrum on psychological and biological dimensions. Traditional theories of psychopathology are unable to account for these data. A framework in which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.413Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages431–444In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of psychotherapy two approaches to psychotherapy are explored. The goals of treatment, the therapist/patient role relationship, and treatment techniques are delineated and illustrated by use of case ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.431Publication date: 01 July 1984
Pages445–452Mistrust is a frequent attitude noted in Vietnam veterans. Three major factors that contribute to this attitude are described. They are: the realities of the war, the many negative responses of society to these men, and the vulnerability of soldiers in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.445Book Review
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