American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 43
- Number 2
- April 1989
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages158–180Nuclear weapons, population explosion, resource and food-supply depletion, and environmental deterioration have been posing increasing threats to human survival. Moreover, for the first time in history, all these major global threats are human caused and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.158Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages181–192The specifics/nonspecifics issue in psychotherapy has given rise consecutively to three major positions: (a) The systems’ position, in which each specific approach to therapy views itself alone as embodying true theory and rightful practice, while ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.181Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages193–207Violent sudden separation from their closest family members determined the extent of survivors’ individual traumas. Uncompleted mourning and the depression and somber states of mind it created were absorbed by their children from birth on. Children of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.193Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages208–217This paper explores the dynamic factors involved in the generation of the classical posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a population of Black South African political ex-detainees. A model is proposed of the evolution of inner psychic events in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.208Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages218–228South East Asian refugees refuse mental health services until behavior is quite extreme. This reflects their attitude to mental illness. Refugees suffer from depression and posttraumatic stress disorder especially when separated from their families and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.218Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages229–237This paper presents a rationale for integrating brief dynamic and cognitive-behavioral techniques in the treatment of eating-disorder patients. It emphasizes psychodynamic work useful in neutralizing defenses and resistances to therapy, which aids access ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.229Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages238–247After briefly reviewing various contributions to the concept of projective identification, the author describes the clinical manifestations of this defense. These include (7) disownment and redirection of an intolerable experience to another, (2) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.238Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages248–259Psychotherapeutic work entails many paradoxes. Emphasizing the patient’s imagery and deemphasizing theory enhances understanding at the manifest level, the level of hidden themes, and the level of transference counter transference patterns. A useful ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.248Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages260–268This paper describes a newly invented apparatus, the Dysphorimeter. By manipulating a selector-slide, the patient can indicate the levels of depression or anxiety. The Dysphorimeter emits increasingly noxious sounds when moved downward on a scale of 1 to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.260Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages269–276This case study presents a young woman who developed a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder after a routine medical procedure. It is suggested that this procedure brought back repressed guilt from three abortions and thus led to the onset of symptoms. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.269Publication date: 01 April 1989
Pages277–286We report the successful use of lithium carbonate to promptly extinguish life-threatening behavior in a case of autoerotic asphyxia occurring in a 26-year-old male. In addition to his paraphilia, the patient met the DSM-III-R criteria for dysthymia, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.2.277Book Review
Publication date: 01 April 1989
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