Provides an outline of psychotherapy with children and adolescents that is based primarily on a developmental and psychodynamic understanding of psychopathology. The primary arena of play is explored, the role of parents is discussed, and common technical problems are related to developmental levels.(85 pp.)
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Classical Psychoanalysis
If the goals and strategy of psychoanalysis can be simply stated and adequately painted in the sweeping strokes of generalizations, the tactics by which the goals are accomplished are impossible to convey. Generalizations describing the more common clinical problems are discussed: the selection of the patient, the preparation of the patient, the process of analysis and the evaluation of the effects of analysis. (59 pp.)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
The adoption of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is indicated when: patients show acute symptom reactions, more chronic characterological forms of psychopathology, or have psychotic disorders, when psychoanalysis would be desirable but is unavailable, or when suitability is uncertain. (66 pp.)
Psychoanalytically Based Conjoint Therapy For Children And Their Parents
In this chapter, interest centers predominantly on the various modes of psychotherapy that are based on concepts of how the child’s mind develops from infancy into adulthood. Before describing and illustrating current approaches to child therapy, however, some historical perspectives will be outlined in order that present trends can be understood in this wider context. (83 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.)
Psychotherapy in Contemporary America
We will examine some of the forces in the development of psychotherapy that have ultimately led to inherent contradictions and to a number of crises, and, finally, we will consider the dilemma faced by the individual psychotherapist as he studies the therapeutic process, tries to evaluate its effectiveness, and seeks to integrate systematic observations into the practice of the clinical art.
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 Children
Every child has deviations in every area of functioning, but has stronger drives for normal development and compensations. The goal for treatment should be to enable them to respond within the normal developmental pattern as quickly as possible. Children change as they develop. They may improve or get worse from their own inner resources as they progress from infancy, to early childhood, to mid-childhood, to puberty, to adolescence, and on to early adulthood. (73 pp.)
Sexual Functions in Women and Their Disturbances
This work presents the interaction of physiological and psychological factors in the sexual function of women. It covers: the theory of the sexual instinct, developmental factors, the sexual cycle, orgasm and frigidity, and the procreative function. Every phase involves a shifting and reorganization of psychic structures. The giving and expansive attitudes needed for the procreative period become outweighed step by step by the restricting, self-centered tendencies characteristic of old age. (68 pp.)
Psychological Aspects of Divorce
When the question of divorce arises, the therapist’s efforts should be directed toward clarifying the issues and alleviating the pathological behavior so that the patient may make healthier and more prudent choices. The ideal counseling situation is one in which the marital partners are seen conjointly by a therapist who has had no previous therapeutic experience with either partner. On the whole there is less psychiatric disturbance in children from broken homes than in those from intact but unhappy homes. (56 pp.)
