American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 42
- Number 3
- July 1988
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages338–353Physicians must regularly make judgments as to the extent to which patients should be considered responsible for their symptoms. Such judgments have important social and treatment consequences for both physically and mentally disordered patients. A ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.338Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages354–379Genital hypoplasia (micropenis) and CNS impairments are among multiple anomalies of embryogenesis that are found in association in a syndrome for which the acronym CHARGE has recently been coined. The CNS anomalies are either peripheral or central or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.354Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages380–388Personality attributes typically found in successful physicians can lead to difficulties in family life. This paper identifies physicians’ positive characteristics and demonstrates with case-history material how these characteristics can contribute to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.380Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages389–403The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl’s method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy. Change results from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.389Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages404–415Experienced clinicians were interviewed to explore the criteria utilized in intentional therapist self-disclosure. Three themes emerged: the psychotherapy relationship, therapist self-awareness, and, most significant, theoretical orientation. Five ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.404Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages416–424A reverse selfobject experience occurs when an infant functions as a selfobject for the mother. While reverse selfobject experiences are a part of healthy development, excessive experiences (a) traumatize the infant, (b) contribute to a pathological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.416Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages425–436Narcissism often aligns with an affluent lifestyle to become a multigenerational affliction. This article describes the usual presenting symptoms, case backgrounds, and classic narcissistic defense of the silver-spoon syndrome. It suggests that in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.425Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages437–447Jigoro Kano created judo from ju-jitsu techniques. He realized that the fu principle of both judo and ju-jitsu as the art of yielding, was that of living and changing. The principle of yielding has been applied in dynamic and directive psychotherapies for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.437Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages448–455Data are presented from a survey of 123 practicing psychologists in 36 states concerning attitudes and prescriptive practices with regard to self-help books. Tables are provided indicating those self-help works most frequently read and prescribed by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.448Case Report
Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages456–464This report describes the treatment and five-year outcome of a girl who presented at 10 years of age with major depressive disorder, psychotic subtype. The applicability of cognitive-behavior therapy for depressed children is demonstrated, and factors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.456Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages465–471The theme of dwelling is a rich metaphor for issues of containment, safety, entrapment, building, and hiding. Over the course of four years of individual psychotherapy, a young woman described the changes in her experience of dwelling in the family home ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.465Publication date: 01 July 1988
Pages472–478This article describes the use of combined cognitive-behavioral and insight-oriented psychotherapy with an 11-year-old boy who had severe obsessive-compulsive disorder of recent onset. Treatment was well accepted by the child and his parents and resulted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1988.42.3.472Book Review
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