{"title":"A Historical Reflection: We Are All Passing Through.","authors":"T. Karasu","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46083668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Platinum Anniversary of The American Journal of Psychotherapy.","authors":"Bruce J Schwartz, S. Wetzler","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48125115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Danny R. Chen, R. Lewis-Fernández
{"title":"If You Don't Ask, They Don't Tell: The Cultural Formulation Interview and Patient Perceptions of the Clinical Relationship.","authors":"Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Danny R. Chen, R. Lewis-Fernández","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210040","url":null,"abstract":"SYNOPSIS\u0000More than half of participating patients expressed mistrust or ambivalence toward clinicians related to differences in cultural background using the Cultural Formulation Interview, which can help enhance communication and trust and help clinicians to anticipate treatment barriers.","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47233865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Sawamura, R. Taketani, Hitomi Hirokawa-Ueda, Takuro Kawakami, Haruka Sakane, Koki Teramoto, Ami Yamamoto, H. Ono
{"title":"Depression Among University Students With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms: A Study of Interpersonal Counseling.","authors":"Y. Sawamura, R. Taketani, Hitomi Hirokawa-Ueda, Takuro Kawakami, Haruka Sakane, Koki Teramoto, Ami Yamamoto, H. Ono","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2021.20210028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2021.20210028","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVE\u0000University students with symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience depression. This study examined whether interpersonal counseling (IPC) could be an effective treatment for depression among students with ADHD symptoms.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000Participants were assigned to either an IPC (N=5) or control (N=7) group. Depression was assessed by using the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) at baseline, postintervention, and at 4-, 8-, and 12-week follow-ups.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000No significant changes in the SDS total score were observed for either group at each postintervention point. However, the IPC group showed a large effect size at the 4- and 12-week follow-ups. A significant intergroup difference was observed after 4 weeks. No significant intergroup difference was observed after 12 weeks, but there was a large effect size.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000IPC appeared to have effects at 4 weeks postintervention. Because this was an exploratory study, further research is necessary.","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49254283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Mentalizing-Synergies in Clinical Practice.","authors":"R. Law, P. Ravitz, Clare M. Pain, P. Fonagy","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210024","url":null,"abstract":"Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidence-supported, relationally focused treatment for people living with depression and other psychiatric disorders in the context of stressful life events. Mentalizing, also relationally focused, promotes the ability to perceive, understand, and interpret human behavior in terms of intentional mental states of others or oneself, in order to support social leaning. IPT and mentalization-based treatments (MBT) both seek to improve interpersonal effectiveness, albeit with different emphases in the therapeutic process, with IPT promoting interpersonal problem solving and MBT promoting understanding of the obstacles to this outcome. In this article, the authors propose that the central intentions of IPT and mentalizing are essentially linked and complementary; understanding others and oneself in relationships facilitates interpersonal problem resolution and symptomatic recovery and enhances resilience. The clinical synergies of IPT and mentalizing are elaborated and illustrated through a case example of treatment for a socially isolated woman with depression and interpersonal sensitivities.","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46127519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supportive Evidence: Brief Supportive Psychotherapy as Active Control and Clinical Intervention.","authors":"J. Markowitz","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2021.20210041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2021.20210041","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVE\u0000Supportive psychotherapy has long had an undeservedly weak reputation. This review aims to describe the use of manualized, time-limited brief supportive psychotherapy (BSP) and its testing in clinical trials across three decades. Although numerous clinical descriptions of supportive psychotherapy exist, its use is reportedly widespread, and several supportive psychotherapies have been used in psychotherapy trials, BSP is the first and sole supportive psychotherapy manualized for research. BSP was designed as a nondirective, affect-focused, bare-bones common-factors treatment.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000Collecting data from the nine randomized controlled trials involving BSP, eight of them published, the author presents a narrative summary of findings.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Eight trials addressed mood disorders and one addressed social anxiety disorder. Sample size varied. Most BSP trials resulted in \"dead heat\" comparable outcomes. BSP generally showed large effect sizes for improvement on the primary outcome variable (range d=0.62-1.01). Delivering it won over some therapists from exposure-based backgrounds.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000Despite its perennial role as an unfavored control condition, BSP held its own in competition with more symptom-focused therapies, usually producing a dead-heat outcome. The findings indicate the importance of psychotherapeutic common factors and the potency of BSP as an active treatment condition.","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48334975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commemorating 75 Years of <i>The American Journal of Psychotherapy</i>.","authors":"Holly A Swartz","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.22075001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.22075001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40316282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lois W Choi-Kain, Sebastian Simonsen, Sebastian Euler
{"title":"A Mentalizing Approach for Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Moving From \"Me-Mode\" to \"We-Mode\".","authors":"Lois W Choi-Kain, Sebastian Simonsen, Sebastian Euler","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a prevalent condition that frequently co-occurs with other diagnoses that bring patients into treatment. Narcissistic disturbances are not often the chief complaint, but they complicate the development of an adequate therapeutic alliance. Typical countertransference challenges, combined with stigma related to NPD, result in difficulty for the therapist to relate to these patients empathically. Mentalization-based treatment provides a means for therapists to reach these patients by taking a \"not-knowing\" stance with interest and curiosity in clarifying and expanding a shared awareness of the patient's emotional experiences. By understanding the attachment functions, mentalizing imbalances, and problems of epistemic disregard among patients with NPD, therapists can break through the self-centered \"me-mode\" of the therapeutic dyad, where the typical lack of engagement or power struggles prevail, to a \"we-mode,\" where the patient and therapist are joined in attention to what happens in the patient's mind and in interactions with others.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39900576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mentalization-Based Treatment for a Physician With Borderline Personality Disorder.","authors":"Robert P Drozek, Brandon T Unruh","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39900577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jana Volkert, Svenja Taubner, Gerry Byrne, Trudie Rossouw, Nick Midgley
{"title":"Introduction to Mentalization-Based Approaches for Parents, Children, Youths, and Families.","authors":"Jana Volkert, Svenja Taubner, Gerry Byrne, Trudie Rossouw, Nick Midgley","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family members mentalize when they try to understand each other's behavior on the basis of intentional mental states. This article aims to introduce and briefly describe how the concept of mentalization can provide a useful framework for clinicians to understand psychopathology of children, youths, and families. The authors further outline how mentalization-based techniques and interventions can be applied to build epistemic trust and to reestablish mentalizing in families by presenting clinical vignettes of initial sessions from various clinical settings in the United Kingdom and Germany. The article concludes with a brief summary about the current evidence for mentalization-based interventions with children, adolescents, and families and provides an outlook for future clinical and research work.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39582201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}