Guilt in psychotherapy: ideological* connection

Ideology and science in the individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia.

The efficacy of individual psychotherapy for acute schizophrenics has been the source of controversy for many decades. Discussion of the scientific issues, such as design, methodology, and assessment, has been clouded by strong ideological conflicts. The relative value of drugs and psychotherapy for schizophrenics has been the subject of tension and dispute between various psychiatric schools--...

Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy With Combat Veterans.

Guilt related to combat trauma is highly prevalent among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Trauma-related guilt has been associated with increased risk for posttraumatic psychopathology and poorer response to treatment. Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) therapy is a 4-module cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy designed to reduce guilt related to combat trauma. The goals of this...

Transgenerational transmission of trauma: guilt, shame, and the "heroic dilemma".

Resistance in Psychotherapy: a Person-centered View

Client or patient resistance in psychotherapy has been the concern of therapists since the time of Freud. Freud identified several kinds of resistance. These included the patient's resistance to uncovering repressed material; resistance to the insights provided by the therapist's interpretations; resistance to the therapist as the provider of these insights--the negative transference; resistanc...

Narcissism: its function in modulating self-conscious emotions.

This study focused on the functional aspects of narcissism in regulating self-conscious emotions (guilt, shame, hubristic pride, and achievement-oriented pride) as well as two other attribution styles (externalization and detachment). The authors investigated Japanese university students (N = 452) with regard to their self-conscious emotions using the Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 (TOSCA-3) a...