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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 41
  • Number 1
  • January 1987

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages4–22

This paper succinctly discusses the current dynamic thinking regarding the diagnosis of the borderline patient. After a brief historical perspective, an ego-psychological diagnostic approach to the borderline patient is presented. Influenced heavily by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.4

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages23–37

A review of the theoretical principles of exploratory, insight-oriented psychotherapy of schizophrenia shows three major trends: drive theory, object-relations theory, and ego-psychology. These trends follow the development of psychoanalytic theory and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.23

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages38–45

This article presents a standard of care for the prediction of violence in outpatient psychotherapy. Major individual and situational correlates of violence are reviewed to provide an actuarial matrix for the further assessment of the patient’s ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.38

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages46–54

A case is made for self-blame as the psychic link between children’s experiences of incestuous sexual abuse and their self-mutilating behavior later in life. Representative case histories and the results of a small pilot study are presented to illustrate ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.46

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages55–67

A psychological model portrays substance abuse as the result of efforts to self-medicate for particularly painful affect states. Long-term psychotherapy is the treatment of choice for the hyper sensitization to affects. The important role of group ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.55

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages68–81

The placebo concept, essential for pharmacology, is inappropriate for psychotherapy. “Common,” “nonspecific,” or “relationship” factors have not been satisfactorily differentiated from “specific,” “intended,” or “characteristic” factors in psychotherapy. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.68

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages82–94

Severely traumatized refugees often have a complicated and chronic clinical course involving a posttraumatic stress disorder. The diagnosis and therapy of such patients faces many problems. Based upon observations of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.82

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages95–103

Brief goal-limited homosexual couple therapy can provide a useful adjunct to individual therapy of homosexuals. Utilization of couple therapy in the treatment of two male homosexual patients is described. Some general differences are noted in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.95

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages104–116

Criticism of psychoanalysis as a scientific discipline has increased recently. Even though psychoanalytic theory deserves ample criticism by the scientific community for its ambiguous definitions, deficient construct validity and precarious ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.104

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages117–126

Transcripts of over half the sessions of a psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy were coded to show amount of speech by patient and therapist, and role dimensions derived from Stiles3 Verbal Response Mode system. Results indicate the process of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.117

Case Report

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages127–136

This paper describes a course of therapy with an agoraphobic female patient. Therapy consisted of two stages: In the first stage, behavioral procedure was applied; in the second, a shift toward exploration of deep cognitive structures was initiated. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.127

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