American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 69
Number 1
January 2015

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An Empirical Investigation of Defense Interpretation Depth, Defensive Functioning, and Alliance Strength in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Pages1–17

The present study examined the relationship between depth of defense interpretations by therapists, and patient defensive functioning, on the therapeutic alliance in a sample of 36 patients undergoing short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Defense ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2015.69.1.1

Original Articles

An Instance of Emotional Absence of a Father Traumatized by War–Clinical Material and Musical Illustration

Rony Alfandary, Ph.D.

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Pages19–33

In his minor essay from 1914, Some Reflections on Schoolboy Psychology, Freud placed immense significance upon the father-son relationship as enabling or inhibiting the individual quest towards a mature, separate, and healthy development. In this essay, I ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2015.69.1.19

Allowing for Psychosis to be Approachable and Understandable as a Human Experience: A Role for the Humanities in Psychotherapy Supervision

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Pages35–51

Psychiatry and related mental health fields, in particular psychotherapy, have a long history of close ties with the humanities. That bond has weakened, however, over the last few decades as medicalized views of mental health and treatment have emerged. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2015.69.1.35

The Dual-Dialectical Conceptualization in Psychotherapy

Shaul Navon, Ph.D.

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Pages53–63

The current paper describes the dual-dialectical conceptualization, a theoretical psychotherapeutic conceptualization based on three major rules: duality, contradiction, and complementarity. The paper surveys these rules with respect to various ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2015.69.1.53

Active Change in Psychodynamic Therapy: Moments of High Receptiveness

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Pages65–86

This article presents the concept of “moments of high receptiveness” (MoHR or “Momentos de Alta Receptividad”), which is derived from the concept of “experiential coupling” (“Acoplamiento de Experiencias”) proposed by . Experiential ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2015.69.1.65