American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 50
- Number 3
- July 1996
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages259–273Values in psychotherapy tend to be neglected. This can be traced to Freud’s insistence on the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Contemporary developments in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, reviewed in this paper, render this traditional antagonism ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.259Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages274–284In this paper, we consider the ethical dimension of working psychotherapeutically with families. We focus particularly on the role of values since they influence so radically how family dysfunction and its corresponding treatment may be construed. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.274Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages285–297A brief history of the development of children’s rights provides a context to discuss four areas the child psychotherapist needs to safeguard regarding these rights: informed consent; distinguishing between the child’s withdrawal of consent and resistance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.285Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages298–310Ethical issues within psychotherapy are reviewed from the perspective of a fifty-year practice experience. The increased interest in these issues is noted and some reasons suggested. Misuse of the power inherent in the therapist’s role for sexual, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.298Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages311–322There is a confluence of clinical error and ethical misconduct in the development of sexual boundary violations during psychotherapy. The study of such cases reveals a number of important lessons to be learned by all psychotherapists. These lessons, as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.311Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages323–335The origins and present status of the concepts of repression and dissociation are discussed, followed by a brief account of the emergence of the recovered-memory movement and the objections made to it on the grounds that it produces a false-memory ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.323Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages336–346This paper describes the use of jokes told by psychiatric patients as a projective technique. The typical themes and styles of the jokes that were obtained are described, including the relationship to the personalities and life situations of the joke ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.336Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages347–359Psychiatry residents often must terminate psychotherapy before patients complete their treatment goals, introducing a stressful event into the therapist-patient relationship. Determining what, how, and when to announce the impending termination, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.347Publication date: 01 July 1996
Pages360–369This paper focusses on the creation of structured psychic experience by literary and psychotherapeutic shaping. The comparison between aesthetical and psychotherapeutic creativity serves to improve our understanding and application of psychotherapeutic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.360