American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 January 2005

This paper makes a case for listening and its role in establishing and maintaining meaningful psychotherapeutic relationships. Further, it examines those factors that have contributed to the devaluation and current decline of listening in mental health ...

Publication date: 01 January 2005

The author uses Winnicott’s theory involving transitional objects, the therapeutic value of play, and the vital role of danger to elucidate the psychotherapeutic aspects of medication visits. A case vignette illustrates growth of the possibility of play ...

Publication date: 01 January 2005

In this article the classical concept and the use of the ‘corrective emotional experience’ in psychotherapy is described. This concept is not widely accepted within the standpoint of contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy and object relations theories. ...

Publication date: 01 January 2005

The present paper discusses the advent and significance of erotic feelings in psychotherapy based on the intersubjective theory. It briefly reviews the coalescence of the tradition of avoidance of physical contact in psychotherapy, and the classical and ...

Publication date: 01 January 2005

We explored the outcome of psychodynamic psychotherapy of a female patient with major depression using clinical evaluation and serotonin transporter (SERT) binding assessed with [¹²³I]nor-β-CIT SPECT. The psychotherapy process was analyzed with special ...

Publication date: 01 January 2005