Recently added articles from American Journal of Psychotherapy:
Psychotherapy 2.0: MySpace® Blogging as Self-therapy
Apr 01, 2008; ... A survey conducted by America Online (AOL®) in 2005 reported the startling finding that almost 50% of those posting entries on internet logs (weblogs or blogs), use them as a form of self-therapy. This finding went relatively unnoticed by psychotherapists and other mental health professionals ....
Revolution In Mind
Apr 01, 2008; ... GEORGE MAKARI: Revolution In Mind. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2008, 613 pp., $32.50, ISBN 978-0-06-134661-3. The title of this book may be a droll double entendre-part reference to the never-ending transformation of theories and discoveries regarding the essence and intricate ...
Trace and Transference: Therapy in a Post-Structuralist Era
Apr 01, 2008; ... As leader of the deconstruction movement, Jacques Derrida has had a profound effect on modern thinking. In this article, the author applies Derridean concepts to psychotherapy. Using the concepts of trace and différance, identity and therapeutic relationships are described. Transference and ...
Embodying the Mind: Movement as a Container for Destructive Aggression
Jan 01, 2008; ... Violent, nonmentalizing individuals who act out aggression do not usually respond to verbal therapeutic approaches alone. We suggest the movement in physically oriented therapies, such as yoga and martial arts, combined with psychodynamic psychotherapy are critical in reaching these individuals ....
Does Attachment Theory Offer New Resources to the Treatment of Schizoaffective Patients?
Jan 01, 2008; ... Attachment Theory brings together biological and psychological foundations of human behavior, and therefore, it could be a useful framework for the understanding and the treatment of schizoaffective patients. Furthermore, the factors that lead to secure attachment between the mother and the ...
Presentations of Self and the Status Dynamics of Psychotherapy and Supervision
Jan 01, 2008; ... This article explores basic issues in the status dynamics of psychotherapy and supervision. Self-presentation and status markers create a dynamic that affects the participants in psychotherapy and in its supervision. "Political correctness," at times, makes it difficult for trainees to discuss ...
Therapists' Responses to Training in Brief Supportive Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 2008; ... There is little research addressing supportive psychotherapy training. This article describes training clinicians in a form of brief supportive psychotherapy (BSP) for a multisite depression study, and reports on a survey of therapist attitudes toward BSP. We hypothesized that while most ...
Psychotherapy Clients as Human Phenomena
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this article, clients of psychotherapy are viewed as human phenomena. Viewing them as such reestablishes the true subject matter of psychotherapy. The psychotherapy project includes understanding as opposed to explanation, as one of its essential components. As psychotherapists engage in ...
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
Jan 01, 2008; ... GEORGE MAKARI: Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. New York: Harper (An imprint of Harper Collins), 2008, 613 pp., $32.50, ISBN: 978-0-06-134661-3. Revolution in Mind is an extraordinary tour de force that traces the intellectual history of psychoanalysis from its ...
Psychosemiosis as a Key to Body-Mind Continuum: The Reinforcement of Symbolization-Reflectiveness in Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 2008; ... MATTI KEINANEN: Psychosemiosis as a Key to Body-Mind Continuum: The Reinforcement of Symbolization-Reflectiveness in Psychotherapy. Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2005, 187 pp., $115.00, ISBN 1-59454-381-X. This rich and innovative book brings new theoretical models to our ...
Mental Activity and Referential Activity of Beginning Therapists: A Construct Validity Study of the Countertransference Rating System (CRS)
Oct 01, 2007; ... This study investigates the construct validity of a revised version of the Countertransference Rating System (CRS) by means of convergence with Referential Activity (RA). The CRS operationalizes three mental activity dimensions (rational-objective, reactive, and reflective) as processes of ...
Psychotherapists' Countertransference Reactions Toward Clients with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia: An Empirical Test of Theory
Oct 01, 2007; ... Contemporary theoretical and clinical literature asserts that countertransference reactions are common and may be specific to clients' presenting concerns and interpersonal styles. Although this phenomenon has broad implications for psychotherapy training and practice, little empirical research ...
How Not To Learn Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Would-be learners of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) may be hampered by learning traps that impede effective acquisition of the skills necessary to provide this type of therapy to clients. Among these pitfalls are the possibility of isolation, therapeutic fanaticism, lack of seriousness, ...
A Case Study of Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder
Oct 01, 2007; ... Background: This study examines the effectiveness of long-term outpatient psychodynamic group psychotherapy for individuals with bipolar disorder who may have psychiatric comorbidity. Method: The Integrative Outpatient Model (IOM) includes psychoeducation regarding illness, illness management, ...
Psychotherapy of the Lived Space: A Phenomenological and Ecological Concept
Oct 01, 2007; ... Using phenomenological and ecological psychology as a base, the author develops the concept of lived space as the totality of an individual's spatial and social relationships, including his "horizon of possibilities''. The lived space may also be regarded as the individual's ecological niche, ...
Limit Setting and Projective Identification in Work with a Provocative Child and His Parents: A Revisiting of Winnicott's "Hate in the Countertransference"
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dealing with children who have disruptive behavior disorders can evoke feelings of frustration and anger in their therapists. D.W. Winnicott discussed the complexities in the treatment of enraging patients in his article "Hate in the Countertransference" (1949). In the following paper, I will ...
Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family
Oct 01, 2007; ... SOPHIE FREUD: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2007, 446 pp., $34.95, ISBN-10: 0-275-99415-5 The recognized author of this book is Sophie Freud, granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, and internationally known Professor Emeritus of Social Work at ...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
Oct 01, 2007; ... ALEC L. MILLER, JILL H. RATHUS AND MARSHA LINEHAN: Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents. The Guilford Press, New York, 2007, 346 pages, $40.00, ISBN: 978-1-59385-383-9 This is an excellent book for all clinicians who work with suicidal adolescents. Beginning with an ...
Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion
Oct 01, 2007; ... ETHEL SPECTOR PERSON: Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2007, 379 pp., $29.95. ISBN 158562-240-0. Dr. Person is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia ...
Family Psychology III: Theory Building, Theory Testing, and Psychological Interventions
Oct 01, 2007; ... LUCIANO L'ABATE: Family Psychology III: Theory Building, Theory Testing, and Psychological Interventions. University Press of America, Dallas, TX, 2003, 374 pp., $56.00 ISBN 0-7618-2302-6. Over the past two decades, family psychologists have contributed greatly to our understanding of ...