American Journal of Psychotherapy

INTRODUCTIONThe role and meaning of narratives in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy has begun to be explored over the past few years. Work on this subject has been submitted by such authors as Jurgen Habermas, Russell Jacoby, Michael Sherwood,...

JANE EDGERTON AND ROBERT CAMPBELL, EDS.: American Psychiatric Glossary. Seventh Edition. American Psychiatric Press, Washington D.C. 1994, 182 pp., $27.00.Charles Rycroft in an introduction to his classic A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis alluded...

PHILIP CUSHMAN: Constructing the Self, Constructing America. A Cultural History of Psychotherapy. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1995, 430 pp., $27.50.Philip Cushman, member of the core faculty of the California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda/Berkeley...

STEVEN JAY LYNN AND JUDITH W. RHUE, EDS.: Dissociation: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives. Guilford Press, New York, London, 1994, 477 pp. $40.00.The volume under discussion is a rather ponderous tome, replete with reflections upon all aspects of...

JULIA KRISTEVA: New Maladies of the Soul. (Translator: Ross Guberman) Columbia University Press, New York, 1995, pp. viii + 242. $27.95.Kristeva provides a psychic examination of what she regards as the problems of the postmodern human condition. Her...

HERBERT M. POTASH: Pragmatic Existential Psychotherapy with Personality Disorders. Gordon Handwerk Publisher, Madison, NJ.Pragmatic Existential Psychotherapy with Personality Disorders attempts to present a new blend of existential therapy appropriate...

LAURENCE SIMON: Psycho "therapy"--Theory, Practice, Modern and Postmodern Influences. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 1994, 248 pp., $59.95.This book must have been fun to write. Certainly it is fun to read. Reviewing it would be more fun if space...

ROBERT WUTHNOW: Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America 's New Quest for Community. The Free Press, New York, 1994, 463 pp., $24.95.Sharing the Journey by Robert Wuthnow, Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for the Study of...

PHILIP M. BROWN: The Death of Intimacy: Barriers to Meaningful Interpersonal Relationships. Hawthorn Press, New York, 1995, + 251 pp., $32.95, hard cover; $22.95, soft cover.One can hardly argue with the thesis that interpersonal intimacy is one of the...

In the course of the psychiatric examination and treatment of any patient, there is a tremendous number of junctures at which decisions must be made. Important points at which judgments occur are the initial assessment, the diagnosis and based on it,...

C. EDWARD WATKINS, Jr., Ph.D.This paper identifies and discusses 10 broad-based themes or conclusions that could be drawn about the field of psychotherapy supervision now. These conclusions focus on various facets of clinical supervision theory, research,...

This past decade has seen the recognition of a major ethical, professional problem among psychotherapists: sexual exploitation by therapists of their patients.(1,2) This paper suggests that one dynamic that could lead to doctor-patient sexual acting...

It is a common notion that the positive feelings patients have for their therapists and the therapeutic process can facilitate the therapeutic work. Reassured by this assumption, positive feelings are examined far less frequently in psychotherapy than...