Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Failures on a therapeutic milieu

  • Successes and Failures
  • Published:
Psychiatric Quarterly Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

“An intolerance of increasing regressive behavior seems to oblige the patient to control herself. This seems similar to the young child who gets hurt outside the house but is able to control himself until home with his mother, at which time he is able to relinquish controls. In other words, the readiness to regress appears to be related in part to its acceptance by those in the environment.”

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Main, T. F.: The ailment. Brit. J. Med. Psychol., 30: 129–145, 1957.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Quitkin, F. M., and Klein, D. F.: Follow-up of treatment failure: Psychoses and character disorder. Am. J. Psychiat., 124: 499–505, 1967.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Friedman, H. J.: Some problems of inpatient management with borderline patients. Am. J. Psychiat., 126: 299–304, (Sept.) 1969.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Stanton, A. H., and Schwartz, M. S.: The Mental Hospital. Basic Books. New York. 1954.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Rodman, R. F.: Interrupting psychotherapy with patients who exceed the limits. Brit. J. Med. Psychol., 40: 359–370, 1967.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Hoedmaker, E. D.: Psychoanalytic technique and ego modifications. Int. J. Psycho-an., 31: 34–46, 1960.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Knight, R. P.: Psychotherapy of an adolescent catatonic schizophrenic with mutism. Psychiatry, 9: 323–39, 1946.

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Whitehorn, J. C.: Studies of the doctor as a crucial factor in the prognosis of schizophrenic patients. Int. J. Soc. Psychiat., 6: 71–7, 1960.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Brody, E. B.: The treatment of schizophrenia: a review. In: Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics. E. B Brody and F C. Redlich (editors). International Universities Press. New York. 1952.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  10. Wexler, M.: The structural problem in schizophrenia: Therapeutic implications. Int. J. Psycho-an., 32:: 157–66, 1951.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Achner, B.: Permissiveness and firmness in the psychotherapy of inpatients. Comprehen. Psychiat., 1: 42–8, 1960.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Kernberg, O.: The treatment of patients with borderline personality organization. Int. J. Psycho-an., 49: 600–619, 1968.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Bourne, H.: Main's Syndrome and a nurse's reaction to it. Arch. Gen. Psychiat., 2: 576–581, 1960.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Zetzel, E. R.: The predisposition to depression. In: Canadian Psychiatric Assn., J 11 Supplement, 1966 (pp. 236–249).

  15. Pollack, I. W., and Battle, W. C.: Studies of the special patient. Arch. Gen. Psychiat., 9: 344–350, 1963.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  16. Brodsky, C. M., and Fisher, A.: Therapeutic programming for the non-psychotic patient. Am. J. Psychiat., 120: 793–797, 1964.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  17. Zetzel, E. R.: A developmental approach to the borderline patient. Am. J. Psychiat., 127: 867–871, Jan. 1971.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  18. Cohen, R. E., and Grinspoon, L.: Limit-setting as a corrective ego experience. Arch. Gen. Psychiat., 8: 74–79, 1963.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  19. Herz, M. I.; Endicott, J.; Spitzer, R. I., and Meznikoff, A.: Day versus inpatient hospitalization: A controlled study. Am. J. Psychiat., 127: 1371–1381 April, 1971.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Psychiatric Service, State University Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, State University of N. Y. Downstate Medical Center, 445 Lenox Road, 11203, Brooklyn, N. Y.

    Herbert Pardes M.D. (Professor and chairman of psychiatry),  Darla Bjork M.D. (Instructor in psychiatry) &  Martin Kaufman M.D. (chief Resident in psychiatry)

  2. University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles

    Theodore Van Putten M.D. (Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)

Authors
  1. Herbert Pardes M.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Darla Bjork M.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Theodore Van Putten M.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Martin Kaufman M.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Pardes, H., Bjork, D., Van Putten, T. et al. Failures on a therapeutic milieu. Psych Quar 46, 29–48 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563632

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563632

Keywords

Search

Navigation