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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 46
  • Number 3
  • July 1992

Editorial

Articles

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages330–354

This study attempts to determine the relationship between creative activity and psychopathology. Extensive information was obtained on 1,005 individuals whose biographies were reviewed in the New York Times Book Review over a 30-year period. The results ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.330

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages357–382

Findings from a long-term research project on the creative process in the arts and sciences are applied to the practice of psychotherapy as a collaborative creative enterprise. The primacy of form and structure in psychotherapy and other creative ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.357

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages383–404

Musical creativity can be observed in the work of performers as well as composers. This article discusses biological determinants of musicmaking, developmental factors leading to the choice of music as a career, and assessment of talents or handicaps ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.383

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages405–421

Creativity has long enjoyed a privileged position in psycho-analytic thinking as being intimately associated with mental health generally and with the successful sublimation and neutralization of the instinctual drives and affects specifically. Moreover, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.405

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages422–433

The first half of the twentieth century saw a veritable epidemic of alcoholism among famous American writers. Novelists, short story writers, poets, and dramatists were afflicted with alcoholism in large numbers. In the nineteenth century only one famous ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.422

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages434–453

Important discoveries on factors that nurture or block creative accomplishment have emerged in recent years from research on clinical, personality, and social factors in creativity. After briefly reviewing these key research findings, this paper discusses ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.434

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages454–469

Culture exerts a profound effect on creative expression. Not only does it influence what is expressed, but it also determines by whom it is expressed, how it is expressed, and what functions this expression serves. But that is not the whole story. Despite ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.454

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages470–484

A review of the literature suggests that the passive-aggressive (P-A) personality disorder lacks validity as a psychiatric diagnosis. However, passive-aggressiveness may be a useful construct when viewed from a dimensional rather than a categorical ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.470

Case Report

Publication date: 01 July 1992

Pages485–491

The course of psychiatric illness may be complicated by an individual’s reaction to it. Psychosis, because of its unique ability to disrupt mental processing, may result in psychological trauma of considerable magnitude. We report the case of an ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.3.485

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