American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 52
- Number 3
- July 1998
Articles
Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages261–272The increasingly common arrangement of nonmedical psychotherapist and prescribing psychiatrist collaborating in the treatment of patients with psychiatric symptoms or disorders, prompted in good part by managed care’s impact on the mental health field, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.261Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages273–286Working psychotherapeutically with patients who hold particular religious beliefs or report psychological experience in religious language poses certain technical questions for the psychotherapist. It has been recently recommended that therapists self-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.273Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages287–300Clinical assessment would ideally culminate in the construction of an empirically grounded, comprehensive case formulation that would: (a) organize all of the key facts of a case around one causal/explanatory source; (b) frame this source in terms of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.287Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages301–312Though their death sentence was lifted almost sixty years ago, child survivors of the Holocaust are often still unsure whether they should have died with their parents. Group psychotherapy, as described in this paper, highlighted these conflicts in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.301Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages313–331In a previous paper on research findings with adolescent sexual offenders, formal and informal responses to offenders were discussed in terms of offenders’ crystallization of foreclosed deviant social-sexual identity. This paper, therefore, seeks to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.313Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages332–351Much of the dispute over the value of long-term psychotherapy in a managed-care system has focused on issues of time and money. This paper reviews the arguments put forth by defenders of psychotherapy and by managed-care organizations, and then moves to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.332Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages352–366Psychotherapists can learn a great deal about their craft from reading literary fiction. This paper will utilize Franz Kafka’s short story, The Metamorphosis, to describe and discuss some of the parallels between the therapist-reader’s relationship with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.352Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages367–381Treating clients with a history of severe childhood abuse and neurocognitive vulnerabilities poses many challenges for the practicing clinician. At the heart of the challenge is understanding how clients learn, and the extent to which a joint narrative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1998.52.3.367Book Review
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