American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 55
- Number 1
- January 2001
Articles
Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages1–21This paper outlines the principles of a conceptual foundation for an innovative approach to the training of the modern psychotherapist, using certain technical and philosophical precepts found in the practice of Zen, divorced from its usual role as a form ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.1Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages22–39Part II of this paper enumerates four additional attributes of mind derived from Zen that could enrich the training of a psychotherapist. These include: training and modulation of the therapist’s attention, the centrality of the concept of “here and now,” ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.22Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages40–50This paper examines Atom Egoyan’s film, Felicia’s Journey, based on the novel of the same name by William Trevor, from an object-relational viewpoint. The protagonist’s characteristic defense mechanisms of splitting, projection, and denial, which are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.40Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages51–64Ludwig Binswanger, a founder of the existential school of psychiatry, attempted to apply philosophical ideas derived from Martin Heidegger, such as Heidegger’s views on the mind-body problem, to the understanding and treatment of psychiatric patients. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.51Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages65–73Freud’s intrapersonal concept of anal-sadistic regression is set against the interpretation of obsessive-compulsive neurosis as a structural ego deficit. The interpersonal dimension that comes to the fore as a result of this, becomes clear if we focus on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.65Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages74–91This article deals with Pierre Janet’s concept of “Psychological Analysis” (analyse psychologique). It brings out Janet’s criticism of Sigmund Freud’s ideas, and delineates the difference between psychological analysis (Janet) and psychoanalysis (Freud). ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.74Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages122–132Psychotherapy in the Consultation-Liaison (C-L) setting is shaped by the realities of the patient’s situation, since all patients referred are dealing with physical illness. The patient’s state of physical and mental health will determine both the type of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.122Case Report
Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages105–121The author views the manic defense as a combined attempt to control persecutory objects and to save them from the aggressive forces within the ego. Rather than strictly a manifestation of depressive guilt, it is also a defense against the fear of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.105Publication date: 01 January 2001
Pages92–104The author discusses a fragment of the analysis of a patient who had experienced both neglect and sexual molestation during early childhood. analysand had developed a defensively hypertrophied form of mindedness an effort to gain some sense of control ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.92Book Review
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