American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 41
- Number 1
- January 1987
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages4–22This 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.1987.41.1.4Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages23–37A 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.1987.41.1.23Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages38–45This 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.1987.41.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages46–54A 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.1987.41.1.46Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages55–67A 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.1987.41.1.55Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages68–81The 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.1987.41.1.68Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages82–94Severely 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.1987.41.1.82Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages95–103Brief 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.1987.41.1.95Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages104–116Criticism 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.1987.41.1.104Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages117–126Transcripts 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.1987.41.1.117Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages166–167https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1987.41.1.166Case Report
Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages127–136This 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.1987.41.1.127Book Review
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