Quality of life measurements in chronic disorders.

abstract：:An approach to the psychotherapy of ego-depleted states or with morbid disease involves the commitment of the therapist far beyond a distant psychoanalytic stance. Engagement must occur before a therapeutic alliance and exploration of underlying issues can begin. The patient in a helpless state needs the therapist's c...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Nadelson T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents are frequently entangled in a web of transitions during their developmental journey from child to adult. These modulations include physiological and psychological changes: individual, familial and social readjustments, and alterations in the evolving family group. Psychosomatic manifestations are often tar...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Rubinstein D

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymic characteristics were studied in 15 monozygotic and 18 like-sex dizygotic healthy young twin pairs in a semistructured interview. Variance analysis showed larger within-pair variances in the dizygotic than in the monozygotic twins. With some reservations, these results point to a genetic influence on the et...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Heiberg AN,Heiberg A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a poorly understood condition in which patients report symptoms following perceived exposure to weak electromagnetic fields (EMFs) such as those produced by mobile phones or visual display units. Little is known about the aetiology of the condition although experimen...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Rubin GJ,Das Munshi J,Wessely S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment under conditions of gnotobiotic isolation can augment the stress of adaptation to a diagnosis of leukaemia. Identification of the psychological problems experienced in isolator treatment can contribute to the effective maintenance of therapy. Individual patterns of adjustment to treatment relate to the psych...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Gordon AM

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the possibilities to identify, within a group of acute low-back pain patients, individuals with psychogenic etiology to pain. 26 acute back pain patients and 25 healthy control subjects were tested with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Hysteria: (Hs), Hypochondria (Hy), Depressio...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sivik TM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is stated that much psychoneuroendocrinological research is carried out that lacks a theoretical framework and therefore adds little to our current knowledge. Therefore, five research issues have been presented which need further exploration: (1) the temporal relation between subjective and biological stress respon...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Vingerhoets AJ,Assies J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptoms as reported by myocardial infarction (MI) patients are not easily distinguishable from the symptoms reported by patients with a diagnosis of 'noncardiac chest pain' (NCCP) (hyperventilation and/or functional complaints). MI patients and patients with a diagnosis of NCCP were questioned by means of a structure...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Beunderman R,Duyvis DJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to Grawe's psychological therapy approach, conflict reduction can be expected not only in psychodynamic, but also in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This was tested in an effectiveness study. Changes in cognitive conflicts, along with those of symptom severity and well-being were analyzed durin...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hoyer J,Fecht J,Lauterbach W,Schneider R

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of the body-mind dilemma goes back to antiquity. Growth in medical knowledge has produced an ever increasing emphasis on physiological deviations and somatic pathology--which too often is not accompanied by sufficient attention to the total patients. Psychosomatics is now the term often used by those who b...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Dorfman W

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological hyperprolactinaemia (PH) is significantly associated with: (1) paternal deprivation during childhood, (2) depression, (3) non-specific symptoms including obesity and weight gain. The clinical onset of the symptoms often follows pregnancy or a loss. Prolactin is an insulin antagonist which does not promote...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sobrinho LG,Almeida-Costa JM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By way of introduction the concepts 'helpful-supportive' (in analytical psychotherapy) and 'exclusive-supportive' psychotherapy are defined. Then the indications and the patients' characteristics (marked ego weakness, dependency wishes) concerning exclusive-supportive psychotherapy in psychosomatic medicine are outlin...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Freyberger H,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of research concerning the identification of individual characteristics predictive of outcome in the treatment of personality disorders (PDs). METHODS:In this study, we carried out a predictor analysis of a sample of 73 hospitalized patients with a primary diagnosis of cluster B PD admitt...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Chiesa M,Fonagy P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relation between psychosomatic and psychosocial symptoms and blood pressure was studied in Swedish schoolchildren. METHODS:Blood pressure was measured in 122 healthy Swedish schoolchildren, aged 6-16 years. Psychosomatic and psychosocial symptoms, delinquent behaviour, parental health and employment sta...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Borres MP,Tanaka H,Thulesius O

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a study of over 100 children whose father killed their mother have been summarized and principles for practice have been formulated. All children orphaned by the death of one parent at the other's hands should be seen as soon as possible in a child psychiatry department and assessed. An immediate crisis int...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Black D,Harris-Hendriks J,Kaplan T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the moment Max Hamilton started his psychiatric education, he considered psychometrics to be a scientific discipline on a par with biochemistry or pharmacology in clinical research. His clinimetric skills were in operation in the 1950s when randomised clinical trials were established as the method for the evaluat...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Bech P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions and dysfunctions of slow wave sleep and of REM sleep and its associated dreams have a tremendous significance in understanding the psychosomatic model of illness and in establishing preventive strategies. Ten patients suffering from a variety of psychosomatic illnessess spent 3-4 nights sleeping at the D...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Warnes H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was a randomized prospective clinical trial to test the effect of a professionally provided program of social support counselling on newly diagnosed lung cancer patients and their families. Over the 6 months of the intervention there was no differential change by experimental status for either the patients ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Goldberg RJ,Wool MS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention models view attention as having at least two components: endogenous attention defined as executive and directed by voluntary acts, and exogenous attention defined as automatic and directed by external stimulation. METHODS:Three studies (2 of our own) were designed to evaluate the decline of these ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Peretti CS,Ferreri F,Blanchard F,Bakchine S,Peretti CR,Dobrescu A,Chouinard VA,Chouinard G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of several studies on sleep EEG and dreams in patients with eating disorders are presented and compared with the data obtained in patients with a major depression. The sleep pattern, which is characteristic of depression, could not be found in the eating disorder group. Regarding the cholinergic REM induct...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Dippel B,Lauer C,Riemann D,Majer-Trendel K,Krieg JC,Berger M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past studies have found that medical patients with the diagnosis of depression (comorbidity) have longer hospital lengths of stay (LOS) than those without the diagnosis of depression. This suggested that scores on a depression scale would be positively correlated with LOS. On a rehabilitation ward, 14 stroke and 17 am...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schubert DS,Burns R,Paras W,Sioson E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author discusses the development of the psychosomatic asthma theory as a paradigm of theory formation in psychomatic medicine. The first formulation of the theory was based on clinical and psychiatric observations. It was tested by psychological, physiological and experimental methods and as a result was reformula...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Groen JJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many antidepressant medications (ADM) are associated with disruptions in sleep continuity that can compromise medication adherence and impede successful treatment. The present study investigated whether mindfulness meditation (MM) training could improve self-reported and objectively measured polysomnographic...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Britton WB,Haynes PL,Fridel KW,Bootzin RR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is still unknown whether anxiety disorders observed in Graves' disease are a consequence of increased thyroid hormone levels or precede the onset of Graves' disease. METHODS:Two case reports are described. RESULTS:In 2 patients Graves' disease occurred in the setting of previously established euthyroid ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Matsubayashi S,Tamaí H,Matsumoto Y,Tamagawa K,Mukuta T,Morita T,Kubo C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metatherapy (a psychotherapeutic procedure based upon parental couple collaboration) is a technique useful for working with severely disorganized family contexts, in which psychopathological diseases (such as psychotic or psychosomatic disorders, suicide attempts of the children etc.) can appear. The management of the...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Vaz-Leal FJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests substantial comorbidity between symptoms of somatization and depression in clinical as well as nonclinical populations. However, as most existing research has been retrospective or cross-sectional in design, very little is known about the specific nature of this relationship. In particular,...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Terre L,Poston WS,Foreyt J,St Jeor ST

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many child and adolescent psychotherapists are asked to work in specialized institutions (where the children are either interns or externs), with children presenting behaviour problems, learning difficulties, mental handicap or important psychosocial problems. They learn through diverse treatment forms, or parent acco...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Bettschart W

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper points out: (1) The fundamental importance, during the patient's first visit, of a shift of the objective involvement on the therapist's person, when a significant real object fails. (2) An initial interpretation, based on understanding this mechanism, is mutational in that it transfers the mourning for rel...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Gillieron E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive syndromes that do not comply with the diagnostic criteria for specific depressive disorders are designated as 'subclinical' or 'subsyndromal' depressive syndromes. Using our own data from a clinical study, this paper outlines the significance of subclinical depressive syndromes and demonstrates th...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schneider G,Kruse A,Nehen HG,Senf W,Heuft G

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deficits in emotion regulation skills are possible factors maintaining major depressive disorder (MDD). Therefore, the aim of the study was to test whether integrating a systematic emotion regulation training (ERT) enhances the efficacy of routine inpatient cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for MDD. METHOD...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Berking M,Ebert D,Cuijpers P,Hofmann SG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00