American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 62
Number 4
October 2008

Articles

Using Countertransference: Analytic Contact, Projective Identification, and Transference Phantasy States

Robert Waska, Ph.D.

Publication date: 01 October 2008

Pages333–351

It is difficult to locate, understand, and interpret the transference state of some patients In the course of psychoanalytic treatment. This paper examines the use of the countertransference to assist in making “analytic contact,” the analyst’s attempt to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2008.62.4.333

Multicultural Considerations for the Application of Attachment Theory

Publication date: 01 October 2008

Pages353–363

Attachment styles impact relationships. Research illustrates the importance of attachment from infancy to adulthood across all cultures. The focus of this paper is to explore attachment theory within the context of the therapeutic process with the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2008.62.4.353

Psychotherapy with HIV/AIDS Patients: Assessment and Treatment Plan Development

Publication date: 01 October 2008

Pages365–375

Successful psychotherapy with patients who test positive for HIV/AIDS involves a sensitive, careful, and thorough hiopsychosocial assessment with specific, detailed attention to the impact that a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS has on overall level of patient ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2008.62.4.365

The Nothing that is Something: Core Dysphoria as the Central Feature of Borderline Personality Disorder. Implications for Treatment

Publication date: 01 October 2008

Pages377–394

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often describe a longstanding depression or dysphoria central to the disorder. The dimension of chronic inner dysphoria is reflected in the DSM criterion of “emptiness” and is demonstrated on self-report ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2008.62.4.377

Teaching the Art of Empathic Interviewing to Third–Year Medical Students using a Fairy Tale—“The Prince Who Turned into a Rooster”

Nancy Joachim, M.D.

Publication date: 01 October 2008

Pages395–418

Can empathy be taught? How can we protect the embryonic forms of empathy germinating in our medical students? Can we immunize them against the ravages to their humanism, astutely observed to occur by Henry Silver, Dean of the University of Colorado in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2008.62.4.395