The Practice of Psychotherapy (Psychology Revivals)

506 Questions and Answers

Lewis R. Wolberg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317666394
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Freud once humorously remarked that "Anyone who wants to make a living from the treatment of nervous patients must clearly be able to do something to help them". It is amazing how frequently this simple precept is ignored and, when a patient does not get well, how often the failure is attributed to lack of proper motivation, diminutive ego strength, latent schizophrenia, and a multitude of assorted resistances. Difficulties that arise during therapy are not due to a deliberate conspiracy of neglect on the part of the therapist. They usually come about because of obstructive situations that develop in work with patients with which the therapist is unprepared to cope.

During his psychiatric career the author, who spent time both teaching and supervising, collected and collated questions from students and graduate therapists who had raised concerns about psychotherapy that related to such obstructive situations. Originally published in 1982, this volume contains both those questions and his answers.

Subject Index

Italic numbers indicate major discussion of the entry.

Acting out, 13, 25, 48, 66, 162, 164,169-90, 172, 178, 266,271, 273, 274

Activity, effect on repression, 46-47 Acupuncture, 11,157-58

Adjunctive therapies, 12

Adolescent problems:

acting-out, 257

depression, 259

drug dependence, 256

group therapy, 259

psychoanalysis, 259

suicide, 259

violence management, 258-59

Advice giving, 109

Agoraphobia, 130, 191, 341

Al-Anon, 196

Alcohol, 129

Alcoholics Anonymous, 12, 196

Alcoholism:

Alcoholics Anonymous, 196

and abstinence, 194 aversive therapy, 69

books on, 196

community programs, 196

curability, 195-96

detoxification, 195

genetic factors, 194

hospitalization, 195

in acting-out patients, 169

infirmities of, 195

prognosis, 308

preventive measures, 197

strategies in, 332

therapeutic modalities, 194

value of drugs in, 139-40

American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 46

American Psychoanalytic Association, 33, 46

Amitriptyline (Elavil), 185

Amphetamines, 139

Analytic training, need for, 359

Anemia, 260

Anorexant medications, 252

Anorexia nervosa, 250-51, 340

Antabuse, 69, 139, 196

Anorgasmia, 340

Anti-anxiety medications. See Anxiolytics

Anticholinergic effects with neuroleptics, 135

Antidepressant medications, 12,130, 338. See also Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, Tetracyclics, Tricyclics

and phenothiazines, 185

in alcoholism, 139-40

maintenance therapy, 132-33, 186

Antiparkinsonian drugs, 1...