Psychotherapy with survivors of the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire.
Thirty psychotherapies with survivors of a devastating supper club fire were studied. Treatments were judged in terms of level of completeness, traumatic symptomatology, therapist experience, and therapist sensitivity to the particular disaster influenced level of completion. Nodal points, such as engagement, dosage of affect, and management of transference are described, and case illustrations provided.
D000328:Adult; D003643:Death; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005390:Fires; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy; D013534:Survival; D014167:Transference, Psychology