The purposes of this paper are (1) to review the background and nature of hypnosis, (2) to synthesize research on hypnosis related to speech communication, and (3) to delineate and compare two potential techniques for reducing speech anxiety--hypnosis and systematic desensitization. Hypnosis has been defined as a mental state characterised by…

The primal reduction does not fit all forms of deep feeling experience. A valid theory of reexperience must be derived from a general theory of feeling which accounts for love. We need a new theory of reexperience not based upon the medical model. (Author)

When a child or another single member of a family is brought for psychotherapy, the therapist's task is to "redefine" individual symptoms into statements about the family system itself, and about how the family system initiates and maintains certain symptoms in particular individuals. (Author)

Society, the patient, and the mental health professional each define ideal mental health from a different vantage point. A truly adequate picture of an individual's mental health is possible only if these three facets of a tripartite model of functioning are evaluated and integrated. (Author/SJL)

After reporting on the outcomes of nonbehavioral family therapies, Wells and Dezen analyze, criticize, and suggest the single-case experimental design. Gurman and Kniskern question their criteria in studying the outcomes of family therapy. Wells and Dezen then discuss relationship factors, suitability of criteria, and objective change measures.…

This article discusses the effects of the male sex role upon male behavior in psychotherapy, showing research results for both therapist and client behavior. The research suggested that male clients tended not to disclose as freely, and that male therapists were perceived as less expressive than females. (LPG)

The article describes the development and evaluation of a Parent-Therapist Program, an innovative family-based treatment model that serves as an alternative to the placement of emotionally disturbed children in residential treatment centers. (Author/DLS)

The problem of confidentiality in psychotherapeutic work is discussed theoretically from three separate but related standpoints: what therapists may or may not do (legally), what they should or should not do (ethically), and how this relates to success or failure (clinically). Case study material is used to illustrate these problems. (Author/MJB)

Psychotherapy is a value-laden process because the very notions of 'therapeutic,''cure,' and 'health' involve patients and therapists in making value choices. Two hierarchies of health values as they apply to therapy are reviewed. (Author)

The effects of several attitudinal, cognitive skill, and personality variables in response to auditory and visual hallucination suggestions to hypnotic subjects are assessed. Cooperative attitudes toward hypnosis and involvement in everyday imaginative activities (absorption) correlated with response to auditory and visual hallucination…

After telling a psychologist his intentions to kill Tatiana Tarasoff, Prosenjit Poddar did so. In Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California the psychologist was found liable for not warning the victim of danger. The author contends that the decision, in terms of medical capabilities, may be ahead of its time. (JT)

Bob and Ann exemplify problems and successes of persons whose learning disabilities are recognized only in adulthood. (JG)

Measurements based on a structural analytic model of social behavior describe the three-year long psychotherapy of a single family. The model is built on two axes labeled affiliation and interdependence and appears in three planes referring to parentlike, childlike, and introjected behaviors. The model specifies logical opposites, complements, and…

Each utterance of a psychotherapy session conducted by Carl Rogers was transcribed on a separate card. Fifteen undergraduate subjects reconstituted client-therapist sequences more accurately than therapist-client sequences. (Author)