Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy back issues from January 1996:
Editor's Corner
Jan 01, 1996; ... This issue begins Volume 10 of the Journal-during which time it has moved from a little known publication to one of international scope and influence. Not only is the Journal received by professionals around the world, it publishes manuscripts from many countries, describing cognitive ...
Recent Developments in the Treatment of Nonpsychotic Morbid Jealousy: Introduction
Jan 01, 1996; ... " . . . trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." Othello, Act III iii, 323-5. Jealousy is a complex syndrome that fascinates the literary world and arouses the interest of social scientists, psychologists and ...
Morbid Jealousy: A Cognitive Outlook
Jan 01, 1996; ... Jealousy as a clinical problem has received little attention in the psychiatric and psychological literature. Recently the literature on morbid jealousy has been reviewed and the concept placed within a cognitive-behavioral framework (Tarrier, Beckett, Harwood, & Bishay, 1990). The term ...
The Treatment of Morbid Jealousy: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach
Jan 01, 1996; ... Jealousy can be seen as rational or undisturbed when people strongly desire love and affection from others but do not dogmatically insist that they absolutely must have it. When they are irrationally or self-defeatingly jealous, they usually have a number of irrational beliefs leading to their ...
The Effectiveness of Cognitive Therapy in Morbid Jealousy: A Case Report
Jan 01, 1996; ... This report illustrates the progress through treatment of a single case of nonpsychotic morbid jealousy using assessment measures specifically designed to evaluate changes in the cognitive behavioral and emotional aspects of jealousy as described earlier. Although a variety of ...
The Role of the Sexual Behavior/Attractiveness Schema in Morbid Jealousy
Jan 01, 1996; ... The article reviews the literature on morbid jealousy with special emphasis on the psychopathology. It describes a study investigating the role of sexual behavior/attractiveness schema in the nonpsychotic morbid jealousy syndrome by comparing 40 morbidly jealous and 40 nonjealous subjects. The ...
Couples Presenting With Jealousy: Alternative Interventions
Jan 01, 1996; ... This paper describes alternative interventions which are available to the therapist when working with couples where one partner is unreasonably jealous and the other may show a variety of behavior such as angry denial, reassurance or provocative responses. Shepherd (1961) and 30 years ...
Treating Family of Origin Problems: A Cognitive Approach
Jan 01, 1996; ... Treating Family of Origin Problems: A Cognitive Approach R. C. Bedrosian and G. D. Bozicas. New York: Guilford Publications, 1994, $36.95 (hardcover). In the summer of 1993, James Framo, Ph.D., ABPP, and I had an engaging discussion emanating from our joint contribution during a ...
Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies: Theory, Research, and Practice
Jan 01, 1996; ... Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies: Theory, Research, and Practice Michael Mahoney (Ed.). New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1995, 216 pp., $38.50 (hardcover). Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies: Theory, Research, and Practice highlights the startling evolution of ...
The Linguistic Therapy of Evaluation: A Perspective on Language in Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 1996; ... The clinical procedure presented here could be considered a type of cognitive psychotherapy which has the main aim of producing an evaluational change through linguistic means. The linguistic therapy of evaluation is based upon the theory of general semantics and is based on a theory which ...
For Every Malady a Sovereign Cure: Optimism Training
Jan 01, 1996; ... Standard cognitive-behavioral therapy gives most of its emphasis to the targeting of negative cognitions for reduction. Yet there may be cases when simply reducing negative cognitions may not be enough. In the present article, we present several "optimism training" techniques that may be ...
Articulated Thoughts and Styles of Self-Presentation in Heterosexual Anxiety
Jan 01, 1996; ... This study adopted a self-presentation perspective to examine cognitive factors involved in maintaining social anxiety in men in heterosexual situations. The self-regulatory appraisals of 25 socially anxious and 25 nonanxious men were compared using a modified version of the Articulated Thoughts ...
An Attempt to Improve Self-Esteem by Modifying Specific Irrational Beliefs
Jan 01, 1996; ... In a double-blind study, subjects with low to moderate self-esteem received either of two cognitive restructuring interventions. The experimental treatment addressed specific irrational beliefs previously found to be correlated with low self-esteem; the control treatment focused on irrational ...
Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies in Crisis Intervention
Jan 01, 1996; ... Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies in Crisis Intervention P.M. Dattilio and A. Freeman (Eds.). New York: Guilford, 1994, 412 pp., $37.95 (hardcover). Crisis situations in the provision of mental health services test the professional skills and personal coping resources of beginning ...
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia
Jan 01, 1996; ... Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia David G. Kingdon and Douglas Turkington. New York: Guilford, 1994, 212 pp., $27.50. In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia, Kingdon and Turkington have written a text that cogently outlines a compelling cognitive therapy approach ...
Linking Negative Parenting With Pathology
Jan 01, 1996; ... Linking Negative Parenting With Pathology Parenting and Psychopathology C. Penis, W. A. Arrindell, and M. Eisemann (Eds.). Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 338 pp. (hardcover). This edited book represents the first compilation of a series of ongoing collaborative ...
Implicit Learning, Tacit Knowledge, and Implications for Stasis and Change in Cognitive Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 1996; ... With the evolution of cognitive psychotherapy, there has been an increasing focus on the nature and influence of cognitive structures or schemata. These structures are out of conscious awareness and therefore can be thought of as tacit in nature. As yet, however, there has been little written ...
Computerized Cognitive Therapy: The Interface Between Man and Machine
Jan 01, 1996; ... Computer programs designed to collect clinical information from patients have been extant for a number of years. Recent efforts, however, have focused on the development of computerized forms of psychotherapy. Cognitive therapy has been modified for use in such computerized psychotherapy ...
Self-Other Working Models and Eating Disorders
Jan 01, 1996; ... In this study, Bartholomew's (1990) four-category model of attachment (secure, preoccupied, dismissing, and fearful) was used to test Guidano's (1987) notion that the personal cognitive organization (P.C. Org.) of individuals with eating disorders is characterized by an enmeshed, preoccupied ...
Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy: From Objective to Constructed Reality
Jan 01, 1996; ... Psychotherapy historically has operated within an expert model context. Within this frame, patients present their symptomatology to the therapist expert for diagnosis and intervention. The work of Milton Erickson has offered an alternative perspective in which the idea of the problem is shifted ...
In the Field: An Application of Cognitive Therapy in Iran: The Khorasan Prison Project
Jan 01, 1996; ... The practice of psychotherapy in Iran is burgeoning. New training programs are being set up in clinical psychology, reflecting a general acceptance in the professional sector as well as among the public of the legitimacy of psychology as an agent for diagnosing and curing mental illness. Among ...
Anger Disorders: Definition, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Jan 01, 1996; ... Anger Disorders: Definition, Diagnosis, and Treatment Howard Kassinove(Ed.). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1995,235 pp., $24.95 (softcover). True to its title, this book, edited by Howard Kassinove, provides comprehensive coverage of conceptual, research, and practice issues ...
Constructivism in Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 1996; ... Constructivism in Psychotherapy Robert A. Neimeyer and Michael J. Mahoney (Eds.). American Psychological Association, 1995, 436 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) Constructivist psychotherapy continues its assault on the fortress of rationalist thinking as exemplified by this new book from the ...
Meaning Versus the Stress-Diathesis Model: A Review of Kingdon and Turkington's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia
Jan 01, 1996; ... Meaning Versus the Stress-Diathesis Model: A Review of Kingdon and Turkington's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia David G. Kingdon and Douglas Turkington. New York: The Guilford Press, 1994, 212 pp., $30.00 (hardcover). This practical handbook by two British psychiatrists is ...
Is Humor Only Fun, An Alternative Cure or Magic? The Cognitive Therapeutic Potential of Humor
Jan 01, 1996; ... The paper deals with the therapeutic potential of humor, emphasizing in particular its properties as a tool of cognitive therapy. The variety, commonness and pervasiveness of the claims about the beneficial effects of humor justify the need to examine these effects in view of modern findings ....
It's the Thought That Counts: The Role of Intentions and Meta-Awareness in Cognitive Therapy
Jan 01, 1996; ... It is usually assumed that cognitive therapy helps patients to reassess the validity of the content of their thinking, resulting in thoughts which are more realistic and less negative, thereby alleviating emotional distress. This paper proposes that negative cognitions may be dysfunctional, not ...
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Panic Disorder in Elderly Adults: Two Case Studies
Jan 01, 1996; ... Cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) has been repeatedly proven efficacious in the treatment of panic disorder (PD); however, information about the efficacy of this treatment with geriatric patients is lacking. The current paper outlines treatment course and outcome for two elderly PD patients ...
In Vivo Cognitive Therapy of Panic Attacks
Jan 01, 1996; ... An in vivo cognitive treatment of panic attacks that combine active behavioral instructions and standard cognitive procedures is described. A case example is presented that both illustrates the method and indicates the potential significance of this treatment component in a complete cognitive ...
Schizophrenia and Cluster A Personality Disorders
Jan 01, 1996; ... The authors have conducted a research program on the interface between psychophysiology and cognitive therapy for a number of years. Here, they describe a recent study concerning schizophrenia and cluster A personality disorders (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal). They studied some ...
In the Field: Cognitive Therapy in Malaysia
Jan 01, 1996; ... In Malaysia cognitive therapy (CT) has begun to be incorporated in the treatment armamentarium of the therapist not long ago. The first trained cognitive behavior therapist, Prof. Azhar Md. Zain, was trained in the U.K. in the year 1994 at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford. Since then he has been ...
Stories of the Self: Surviving In a World With No Truth
Jan 01, 1996; ... Stories of the Self: Surviving In a World With No Truth Story Revisions: Narrative Therapy in the Postmodern World A. Parry and R.E. Doan. New York: The Guilford Press, 1994, 216 pp., $15.95 (softcover). Postmodern writings, for the most part have earned reputations for thick, ...
Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
Jan 01, 1996; ... Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies Albert Bandura (Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 334 pp., $00.00 Research and publication on the construct entitled self-efficacy has grown exponentially in terms of both numbers of studies and diversity of applications. Self Efficacy ...