American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 July 2008

Of 1,969 patients seen by a clinical psychologist during 40 years of private practice, at the time the outcome data were analysed 1,374 were either in treatment or had completed treatment and all of these cases had produced outcome data. The results show ...

Publication date: 01 July 2008

In this paper, we consider the use of e–mail in psychotherapy and its impact on the experience of therapy for both patient and clinician. We discuss in detail the potential for boundary compromise by e–mail use and consider how e–mail may undermine the ...

Publication date: 01 July 2008

Research on perfectionism has generally left unanswered the questions of its developmental history and its meaning in lived experience. A clinical vignette illustrates a contemporary psychodynamic approach used to answer these questions and a therapeutic ...

Publication date: 01 July 2008

This paper examines attachment theory in the context of the biology of affect regulation and the convergence of these in psychotherapeutic processes. Because of recent advances in understanding how the infant brain/mind/body is shaped by the infant’s ...

Publication date: 01 July 2008

The aim of the study described in this paper was to develop a method for measuring the therapeutic alliance from an intersubjective perspective and to evaluate the efficacy of the measure in predicting psychotherapy outcome. We conducted the study using ...

Publication date: 01 July 2008

Publication date: 01 July 2008