Idealized, behavior therapy applies the laws of learning and conditioning as developed in the laboratory, to the alleviation of human maladjustment. In addition, there is a diversity of procedure and an inventive flexibility in adapting psychological technology particularly into cognitive manipulation, use of fantasy, and instructional control. (81 pp.)
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Behavior Therapy for Children
Child-behavior therapy deals with deviant behavior and its determining conditions. In contrast, dynamic and client-centered child therapies focus on intrapsychic problems and consider deviant behavior as symptoms of those problems. It devotes its total effort to altering the environmental conditions that maintain the disorder. (72 pp.)
Family Therapy After Twenty Years
Presents how the family movement began, how it has developed and how this has been related to the changing psychiatric scene. Family therapists represent a diversity in theory and therapeutic method. Some family therapy has moved from psychoanalytic thinking toward a systems theory and systems therapy. (72 pp.)
Sexual-Incapacity Therapy
The “diagnostic” categories are not well related to specific etiologies, pathologies, prognoses, or therapeutic regimens. Therapies are loosely structured. Treatment is most likely to be aimed at either specific symptoms or at overall improvement in the patient’s psychological adjustment. (46 pp.)
Elements of Influence in Psychotherapies
Here we try first to supply some answers to a puzzle. The puzzle is how one person can move another. That one can do so shows the mutability of humans, while the fact that the change can last shows their permanent aspect. But why do changes last? (54 pp.)
Therapeutic Intervention & Social Forces
In the tension between conformity and the acquisition of new knowledge lies both the chance for progress and the possibility of holding a mirror to contemporary culture. (26 pp.)
The Prescription of Treatment for Adults
The population of patients that come to see a psychiatrist is distributed on a normal curve ranging from high-expectant trust to a very low capacity for this readiness to be helped. Where high-expectant trust almost any technique will work and often the directive techniques are faster. Where low-expectant trust is present the opening steps require a diligent cultivation of the patient’s capacity to trust. (22 pp.)
The Treatment of Drug Abusers
Drug abuse begins in adolescent groups and peer-to-peer transmission is responsible for epidemics. This is most malignant when it appears in disadvantaged minority groups in the inner city. The cycle of improvement through treatment is followed by repeated relapse. Most psychiatrists are not prepared to understand that the positive image they enjoy in ordinary practice turns to a negative one in the drug world. Optimal contribution from psychiatrists are associated with team functioning with ex-addicts or paraprofessionals who serve as interpreters of the drug subculture and as primary counselors for patients in treatment. (63 pp.)
American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 1
The Foundations of Psychiatry. Offers an overview of the History of Psychiatry, Basic Notions, Human Development, Schools of Psychiatry, and Psychiatric Contributions from related fields. Download the entire volume or choose any of the individual chapters below. (3272 pp.)
American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 3
A compendium of Adult Psychiatry covering
- General Concepts about Neuroses and Related Disorders
- Specific Neurotic and Character-Disordered Behavior and Syndromes
- Syndromes Associated with Action Directed against the Environment
- Sexual Behavior and Syndromes
- Addictive Behavior and Syndromes
- Functional Psychoses and Related Conditions
- Unclassified Behavior and Syndromes
(2365 pp.)
