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American Journal of Psychotherapy

  • Volume 59
  • Number 2
  • April 2005

Articles

Publication date: 01 April 2005

Pages83–99

This paper examines the ramifications of a psychotherapist’s self-disclosure stimulated by the film Gloomy Sunday (Barkow, N., 1988, Universal Pictures, 1999). It describes the five-year psychoanalysis of a depressed surgeon who made serious medical ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2005.59.2.83

Publication date: 01 April 2005

Pages101–118

Harry Stack Sullivan (1940) described the psychotherapist as most essentially a “participant-observer.” This term is typically used to characterize the dual roles of the ethnographic researcher. The myriad of similarities that exist between the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2005.59.2.101

Publication date: 01 April 2005

Pages119–135

Effective intercultural psychotherapy generally has been conceptualized in terms of a specific knowledge and skills base, combined with relevant attention to the practitioner’s cultural attitudes and beliefs. Although such an approach continues to be the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2005.59.2.119

Publication date: 01 April 2005

Pages137–147

The major clinical morbidity of bipolar disorder is chronic depression. Yet this depression, which is resistant to our best pharmacological treatments, may represent something else. We suggest it may involve existential despair, as a consequence of the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2005.59.2.137

Publication date: 01 April 2005

Pages149–168

Patients who are prone to having negative therapeutic reactions seem to be increasingly common in clinical practice. These patients pose special problems for graduate students, psychoanalytic candidates, and other clinicians who struggle with anxiety ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2005.59.2.149

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