American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 53
- Number 1
- January 1999
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages1–16This article is based upon a symposium presented at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the Department of Psychiatry’s 50th anniversary (September 20, 1997). The panel of psychotherapy scholar-clinicians discusses issues including: whether or not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages17–34Part II of this paper presents an outline for the assessment of suitability for psychotherapy based on the patient’s ability to participate in the basic tasks of the therapeutic process and provides a coherent approach to this complex and difficult task. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.17Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages35–51This paper attempts to clarify the nature, function and centrality of curiosity in the development of object relations and the consolidation of the self. It demonstrates how the primary relationship between the infant and the caregiver influences the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.35Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages52–59It is important in these changing times to reconsider the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious and the phantasmal mental life that occupies it—so that we can recalibrate our clinical work with it. It is the foundation of all our endeavors. Recent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages60–73Fairbairn’s secular object relations model of the development of the human personality emphasizes the power of the environment to form inner ego structures and the ensuing tragic results for r all human infants who are faced with an unnurturing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.60Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages74–81This paper describes the interactions of a patient and her therapist in the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, during which there occurred two significant impasse enactments. At first sight, each resembled a classical impasse. On further review of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.74Publication date: 01 January 1999
Pages82–95The contributions of Erwin Straus, a phenomenologist psychiatrist of reknown in Europe but little known in the United States are summarized. His emphasis on the wholeness of the world as it unfolds in its sensory splendor, as opposed to the traditional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.82Book Review
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Pages141–142https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.1.141Editorial Commentary
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