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Citation |
Olson E. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1936; 6(3): 416-420. |
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(Copyright © 1936, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell) |
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unavailable |
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Abstract |
This article discusses the trend in social therapy by presenting a case of a 48-year old man who was referred to the family agency by the department of public welfare because of threats of suicide. The case is presented to show the curative results gained from the transference situation nicely accepted by the social worker when she found that the client could not establish this relationship to a male psychiatrist to whom he had been referred. The agency and the worker preferred not to take this therapeutic responsibility but because of the client's insistence, along with his precarious mental state, it seemed safer to go along with him. On coming to the family agency, the patient repeats his threats of suicide but soon hands over to the worker the trianol which he carried in his pocket, suggesting that it would be safer with her. In discussing his contact with the psychiatrist, who made a diagnosis of anxiety hysteria, he indicates fear reactions, because he feels the doctor might send him to an institution if he does not cease his suicidal threats. He also expresses some fear because, when he asked the doctor about his dreams, he said he was told that dreams were a bad indication. He early becomes very dependent on the social worker, who arranges the relief plans and helps him to manage other environmental details. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords |
Cognitive Processes; Psychotherapeutic Transference; Responsibility; Suicide; Therapeutic Processes; Threat |