The development, over the past tViO years, of brief group psychotherapy as a treatment approach with military psychiatric patients is described. The tactics and techniques involved in the method are particularly emphasised. The recurrent themes of service life, identity difficulties and nuclear family disturbances were noted in all groups and the concept that the Army might be experienced as a ...

Comparison of the efficacy positive psychotherapy and schema therapy on cognitive flexibility physical self-esteem in women seeking cosmetic surgery

This study examines the concept of transference, focusing on its peculiarities in the group context. The nature of the therapeutic situation and the broad freedom given to patients in order to access the unconscious material at their own pace, within a safe environment and with as little censorship as can be managed, transference gradually takes place. Through displacement, the psychotherapist ...

In order to manage the emotional and psychological problems in special population such as mental retardation. HIV positive cases so on. A comprehensive management of this type includes psychotherapy. Here it is necessary know about concept its beauty various disorders. It a method which called psychotherapy (Talking Cure). Psychotherapy systematic attempt disorders with help means variant appro...

The Multi-Center Dilemma Project is a collaborative research endeavour aimed at determining the role of dilemmas--a kind of cognitive conflict, detected by using an adaptation of Kelly's Repertory Grid Technique--in a variety of clinical conditions. Implicative dilemmas appear in one third of the non-clinical group (n = 321) and in about half of the clinical group (n = 286), the latter having a...

Distressing character of infertility has led to the development of several psychosocial interventions. We describe two women who suffered from infertility with unknown cause for a long-time period. They participated in weekly, one and half hour group psychotherapy for 10 sessions regularly and became pregnant after these sessions. Group psychotherapy can be used for infertile women who suffer f...

In his 1957 Annual Review of Psychology article, Winder defines psychotherapy as an interpersonal relationship characterized by the following attributes (p. 309): (1) at least one of the participants (i.e., therapist) is an expert in human relationships; (2) at least one of the participants (i.e., client) displays intrapersonal or interpersonal adjustment problems; (3) the objective of the rela...

BACKGROUND For treatment-refractory Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder (OCD) patients, anterior capsulotomy is a potential therapy. We investigated what kinds of cognitive deficits treatment-refractory patients have and how anterior capsulotomy modifies their clinical and cognitive profiles. METHODS Ten treatment-refractory OCD patients were examined in two groups (operated and non-operated) with ...