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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 51
  • Number 1
  • January 1997

Articles

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages1–13

To study dreaming and storymaking as parallel creative acts, two fragments of a novel are presented along with four contemporaneous dreams by the novelist. These six works show how Lacan’s ideas about the language structure of the unconscious are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.1

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages14–30

This article outlines a basic framework and strategy for a dynamically oriented psychotherapy with borderline patients. Focus includes arrangements and guidelines for psychotherapy, neutrality, the stability of the therapeutic environment, the therapeutic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.14

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages31–44

This paper examines psychotherapy with HIV-positive gay men from a psychodynamic perspective. The themes of loss, uncertainty, identity, and meaning are put forward as central in this therapeutic work. A range of interventions (from counseling to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.31

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages45–53

The author presents accepted definitions of the term metaphor and reviews types of metaphors in common usage. He then attempts to elucidate the purposes behind utilizing psychotherapeutic metaphors and their inherent value in a therapeutic context. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.45

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages54–66

In “talking” therapy, the personal-experience narrative provides a vehicle through which the patient and therapist can vicariously coprocess experience. This is a common therapeutic process that is also found in music, movement, and art therapies. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.54

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages67–76

The use of hypnosis contains an undue power differential, sometimes perceived as an ability of the hypnotist to control the subject. This article explores the controversy regarding issues of power and control in the hypnotic relationship, including ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.67

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages77–85

Stage directors are involved in a process similar to psychotherapists. They empathize, stimulate emotional recall, deal with conflict, encourage risk-taking, build confidence, establish a supportive environment, and create a sense of family. This paper ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.77

Book Review

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages102–122

Faced with a lack of external confirmatory data and basing their judgments on sometimes dubious evidence, psychoanalytic clinicians are faced with a need to establish criteria on which to base decisions regarding historic truth, however lacking in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.102

Publication date: 01 January 1997

Pages86–101

Severely traumatized patients with disturbances in attachment style may exhibit poor functioning and a great deal of dependency upon the therapist. Insights from relational theories are utilized in an attempt to explore what such patients truly need from ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.1.86

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