American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 40
- Number 3
- July 1986
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages324–342Benefits and limitations are discussed in five major areas: treatment, training, diagnosis, research, and review. Strides in the standardization of the psychotherapies, development of innovative techniques, and integration of theoretical and clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.324Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages343–356Outcome of ECT was examined in relation to identifying data, psychiatric diagnosis, ratings of psychopathology, neuropsychological and EEG findings and ECT parameters. Sixty-three percent of 261 patients were rated as much improved. Response to ECT was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.343Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages357–369The authors review both the limitations and the benefits of neuroleptic drugs. Even though these medications are highly effective for both the acute and maintenance phases of treatment, they are limited by both their side effects and the unfortunate fact ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.357Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages370–376The successful treatment of 70 to 80 percent of patients with major depression by antidepressant drugs is emphasized. However, this success is qualified by limitations of the drugs themselves, such as a delayed onset of action and side effects, as well as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.370Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages377–392The use of antidepressant medication as a treatment for a variety of childhood behavioral and emotional disorders has been the focus of an increasingly sophisticated body of research work over the past decade. This paper reviews some of the more common ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.377Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages393–404There is some evidence that the psychotherapeutic process can be enhanced by the use of drugs that invite self-disclosure and self-exploration. Such drugs might help to fortify the therapeutic alliance and in other ways. One drug that may prove promising ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.393Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages405–418In recent years a more permissive attitude has emerged concerning the choice of suicide as an alternative to some life situations This trend is examined with particular focus on increased public acceptance of the notion of “rational suicide.” The position ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.405Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages419–429This paper gives an historical sketch of American psychiatry and the many factors which finally led from the zenith of the state hospital system in the 1940s to the deinstitutionalization process and its dire consequences. Predictions are made about the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.419Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages430–447Based on a review of studies that employed either psychological assessment or experimental techniques in combination with content analysis of verbal material, this paper presents a conceptualization of alexithymia in terms of situation-specific coping ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.430Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages448–456Three violent patients presenting to the emergency room are described. Little has been written on the use of empathy with acutely violent patients. The author reviews the concept of empathy and shows how its development and utilization can have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.448Case Report
Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages457–465In a case of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ten years after war experience, we used a metaphor as the central focus in a successful brief focal psychodynamic psychotherapy with a follow-up of one year.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1986.40.3.457Book Review
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