American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 49
- Number 3
- July 1995
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages317–337This paper presents an overview regarding the borderline patient, including historical background, diagnosis, developmental theory, prognosis, and psychotherapy, all from a psychodynamic perspective. Five clinical vignettes are presented, reflecting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.317Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages338–349The supervisee typically experiences shame in psychotherapy supervision. The discovery and exploration of that shame may enhance both the therapy and the supervision. A case example is presented to illustrate sources of the supervisee’s shame. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.338Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages350–370Therapeutic difficulties in maintaining empathic contact with narcissistic patients must be understood within the interactional context of unconscious mutual influence. Countertransference vulnerabilities with these patients are exacerbated, frequently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.350Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages371–384In this paper, I use discourse analysis to study an individual psychotherapy session. I recorded and transcribed one of my own sessions with a patient in the early phases of supportive psychotherapy. My investigation begins with a background review of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.371Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages385–404Pine has described a multiple model for analytic work that recognizes the qualitatively different psychological phenomena emphasized by what he calls the “four psychologies of psychoanalysis,” the psychologies of drive, ego, object relations and self. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.385Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages405–415The study explores the image of the psychotherapist through an analysis of nineteen fictional literary works featuring figures of psychotherapists. The literary image was examined by means of a questionnaire and content analysis. The profile that emerges ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.405Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages416–427The present study investigated the influence of the patient’s sexual orientation on 417 therapists’ perception of his mental health. Participants were assigned case histories where a hypothetical patient was heterosexual or ego-syntonic homosexual. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.416Publication date: 01 July 1995
Pages428–445The nature of human attachment is examined in the context of clinical material generated in the play therapy sessions of a ten-year-old boy. The relationship between the attachment drive and other drives is viewed in terms of Freudian theory, attachment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.3.428Book Review
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