American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 65
Number 4
October 2011

Highlights

Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Therapy According to Pierre Janet Concerning Conversion Disorders and Dissociative Disorders

Publication date: 01 October 2011

Pages281–309

Pierre Janet’s works on conversion disorders or dissociative disorders has mainly fallen to the wayside in favour of Freud’s works. In the first part of this paper, Janet’s conception of hysteria is discussed and his place in French psychiatry described. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2011.65.4.281

Marriage Education for Clinicians

Publication date: 01 October 2011

Pages311–336

The field of marriage education has come to be dominated by nonprofessionals with no clinical training because clinicians interested in relationships typically provide marital therapy to couples in distress rather than marriage education to healthy ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2011.65.4.311

Original Articles

The Induction of Noninterpreted Benevolent Transference as a Vehicle for Change

Milton Viederman, M.D.

Publication date: 01 October 2011

Pages337–354

It has become widely accepted that nontransference interpretation can have power (). My intent in this paper is to describe an active, intentionally evoked, but uninterpreted, positive transference that is designed to effect change in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2011.65.4.337

The Patient–Therapist Interaction and the Recognition of Affects during the Process of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Depression

Publication date: 01 October 2011

Pages355–379

The perceptions of patients (n = 25) and their therapists about psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression were assessed during the first treatment year using 23 scales. Patients and therapists independently evaluated the impact of depression on the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2011.65.4.355

An Object Relations Approach to Cult Membership

Publication date: 01 October 2011

Pages381–391

Several pieces of literature suggest that most individuals who are successfully integrated into cults do not typically manifest symptoms of mental illness. However, the public is often taken aback by the lack of autonomy displayed by cult members and is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2011.65.4.381