American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 48
- Number 2
- April 1994
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages181–194Psychotherapy with persons with disabilities may help in alleviating suffering related to loss and violations of personal, not simply bodily, integrity. Depression and denial are among potential responses to the enormity of losses. Factors such as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.181Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages195–207Individual psychotherapy for family members of persons with physical disabilities due to associated distress is discussed. Characteristics of the psychological difficulties that need to be addressed are described within the context of interpersonal and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.195Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages208–220Countertransference experienced by caregivers who work in rehabilitation of the severely physically disabled is explored. Utilizing a narrow definition of countertransference (= troublesome reactions), two major etiological categories are offered: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.208Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages221–230Significant illness or disability in the therapist will have complex repercussions upon the treatment process. This discussion focuses primarily on the multiple possible countertransference responses that the therapist may experience, and on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.221Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages231–239Patients’ spontaneously generated symbols can be utilized in psychotherapy to help them reestablish a sense of meaning and purpose. Extremely negative life events, such as disabling injury or disease, shake the foundations of our lives and selves and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.231Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages240–250The history of psychotherapy and physical disability is reviewed. The scope of the review ranges from the early writings to contemporary findings on psychotherapy with the physically disabled. Particular attention is given to the prepsychoanalytic work of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.240Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages251–261In recent years very few psychodynamic contributions to the aetiology or treatment of male homosexual behavior have been made. This paper based on material from patients, and noting the contributions of others, indicates that such patients can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.251Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages262–279This paper gives an account of the author’s expenence as coleader of a therapy group for women who had been exploited by health care providers. The paper looks at treatment goals and techniques as well as special problems encountered in working with this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.262Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages280–293Working with Southeast Asian refugees teaches Western psychotherapists how culture impacts notions of health, psychopathology, and psychotherapy, affecting the ways we understand and respond to our patients. Western psychotherapists should not try to “be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.280Case Report
Publication date: 01 April 1994
Pages294–301A series of recent articles have documented the range and frequency of ethical violations in psychotherapy. The present paper was designed to extend this literature by examining one such case in depth. The present case is instructive in several regards: (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.294