The term " psychotherapy " should be used only in circumstances, when the patient, by reasons of the persistence of troublesome symptoms, attend or is directed with his consent to the competent therapist (a psychologist, a doctor) who focuses on a form of treatment called psychotherapy. The American Psychological Association uses the definition developed by John C. Norcross, who wrote that: " P...

The authors describe methods used to approach the integration of competing psychotherapy paradigms within a resident psychotherapy seminar. They distributed a questionnaire developed to assess residents’ subjective feelings about the usefulness of the seminar and also surveyed a second program that teaches multiple perspectives without formal attempts at integration. Results indicate that a lar...

Seventy patients in outpatient psychodynamic, time-limited psychotherapy and their sixteen therapists participated in the Vanderbilt II psychotherapy research project. Results of an investigation of the internalization of therapist-patient relationships using the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior indicate that patients' intrapsychic functioning became more similar to interpersonal activity...

Bonding psychotherapy is an intensive form of group therapy with the goal of overcoming the fear of intimacy and rejection. The theory, method and the research results of the bonding psychotherapy are described in this article. The ultimate aim of the bonding psychotherapy is to increase the ability to fulfil the biopsychosocial basic needs, to be able to enter into positive relationships and t...

Meaning Therapy, also known as meaningcentered counseling and therapy, is an integrative, positive existential approach to counseling and psychotherapy. Originated from logotherapy, Meaning Therapy employs personal meaning as its central organizing construct and assimilates various schools of psychotherapy to achieve its therapeutic goal. Meaning Therapy focuses on the positive psychology of ma...

Low positive and high negative affect predict low rates of smoking abstinence among smokers making a quit attempt. Positive Psychotherapy can both increase positive affect and decrease negative affect and therefore may be a useful adjunct to behavioral smoking counseling. The purpose of the present study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a Positive Psychotherapy for Smoking Ces...

INTRODUCTION Countertransference, the emotional reaction of a psychotherapist toward a patient, is an important technical element of psychotherapy. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify and describe the main findings of studies that evaluated countertransference in adult psychotherapy. METHODS A search was conducted of the databases Embase, PubMed, PsycINFO and Web of Knowledg...