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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 54
  • Number 1
  • January 2000

Articles

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages1–17

It is vitally important that psychotherapists bring a strong understanding of the nature of love to their work with the many clients who are struggling, in one way or another, with love relationships. With this in mind, the present paper is designed to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.1

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages18–25

The protagonist of Thomas Manns novella Tonio Kröger is examined in terms of object-relational theory. This approach is briefly compared with the interpretation that might be offered by structural theorists. Kröger, the son of an authoritarian and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.18

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages26–42

A clinically orientated definition of psychoanalysis is proposed and distinctions are made between interactive counseling, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Elements of the treatment, such as frequency, diagnosis, and use of the couch are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.26

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages43–54

This article propounds that formal clinical frameworks do not provide answers to the significant technical problems that typically confront certain types of psychotherapists in their daily work. Specifically, it is claimed that for a certain class of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.43

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages55–66

Treatment of couples presenting for therapy typically necessitates a process of riding out the storm of contention, entering the contextual framework in which the couple is relating and developing an understanding of the couples interactive as well as ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.55

Case Report

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages67–74

The psychodynamic life narrative is a statement that is made to the patient that gives current emotional reaction meaning in the context of his life history, and shows it to he a logical and inevitable product of previous life experiences. Because the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.67

Publication date: 01 January 2000

Pages75–96

The article gives an inside look at a case where posttraumatic stress is intertwined with disturbances in object relations and ego-identity. The patient was a victim of a brutal authoritarian father who had abused her sexually. The trauma left her ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2000.54.1.75

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