American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 January 1992

Publication date: 01 January 1992

Publication date: 01 January 1992

This selective review of recent clinical research on neurotic depressive and dysthymic disorders observed in psychiatric settings reveals that, far from being “minor,” they typically begin early in life against a familial background loaded with mood ...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

While not as extensively studied as major depression, several pharmacologic studies of patients with variously diagnosed minor depression confirm response rates similar to those found for patients with major depression. We conclude that standard trials of ...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

This paper proposes a developmentalist metatheory for the psychotherapy of depressed patients. Four prototypes of depressive disorder based on psychosexual maturation—dyadic deficit depression (DDD), dyadic conflict depression (DCD), triadic deficit ...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

Some overall diagnostic and therapeutic advantages of focusing on patients’ behaviors, affective processes, sensations, images, cognitions, interpersonal relationships, and drugs/biological factors are outlined. The virtues of using this broad-based ...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

Treatment studies of subgroups of patients with minor depression are reviewed. These include studies of dysthymia, neurotic, characterological depression, “double depression,” and follow-up studies of long-term treatment. Problems due to the ambiguity of ...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

This paper distinguishes between self-analysis (the classical psychoanalytic approach to the search for deep insight) and self-processing (the equivalent effort as based on principles drawn from the communicative approach). The structure and transactions ...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

In a retrospective pilot study, 88 outpatients were videotaped during therapy and encouraged to watch the tape at home. Seventy-three (83%) reported video homework was helpful to the therapeutic process. Success of therapy according to video-group self-...

Publication date: 01 January 1992

Research suggests that in many conditions combined treatment with psychotherapy and medications may be more effective than either alone, although either modality by itself benefits many patients. Based on the extensive literature, this paper addresses the ...

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In the present theoretically skeptical era, a need is felt for criteria to evaluate therapeutic constructs. However, all absolute criteria seem to be accepted only by adherents of the approach that endorses them. We propose that in our pluralistic era, a ...

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Definitions of psychological-mindedness are reviewed and critiqued, and a new model presented. Though the construct has broad applications for psychotherapy issues, definitions appearing in the literature have inconsistently specified the components of ...

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Publication date: 01 January 1992