Role of stress in the development of the hyperventilation syndrome.

abstract：:Patients with hyperprolactinemia often present with emotional difficulties. These occasionally persist even after successful treatment. Insight into the roots of their diseased state makes a difference in the handling of all cases, but becomes crucial in the not-so-rare situations in which the normalization of hormona...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sobrinho LG

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：: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：:A special strategy of psychotherapeutic approach to psychosomatic patients is described including a 3-month period of inpatient and a 2-year period of outpatient group psychotherapy. Additional therapeutic procedures applied during the time of hospitalization are a special kind of sensitivity training ('sensual awaren...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： von Rad M,Rüppell A

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between depressed mood and alexithymia, measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) was investigated in a group of psychiatric inpatients (n = 81) and outpatients (n = 97). In both cohorts correlations between the TAS and obsessoid personality style were significant when controlled for mood. The o...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wise TN,Mann LS,Hill B

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Psychiatric clinicians frequently prescribe biologic treatments such as antidepressant medication in combination with psychologic treatments such as psychotherapy. In the present article we propose a model integrating antidepressant treatment with Beck's cognitive therapy, a form of psychotherapy with established effi...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Pava JA,Fava M,Levenson JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:With regard to cluster B personality disorders, most psychotherapeutic treatments focus on borderline personality disorder. Evidence-based treatments for patients with other cluster B personality disorders are not yet available. Psychoanalytic-interactional therapy (PIT) represents a transdiagnostic treatmen...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Leichsenring F,Masuhr O,Jaeger U,Rabung S,Dally A,Dümpelmann M,Fricke-Neef C,Steinert C,Streeck U

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbal affective expression and psychometric variables were studied in a group of 5 duodenal ulcer and 6 irritable bowel patients. The aim was to assess the relevance of the alexithymia contruct to the distinction between both groups. Irritable bowel patients exhibited higher scores on Zung's depressiveness scale. Ale...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Heerlein A,De la Parra G,Aronsohn S,Lolas F

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a lack of scientific consensus about cancer comorbidity in people with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. This study assesses the co-occurrence of cancers in patients with CNS disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), autism spectrum disorders, Down's s...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Catalá-López F,Suárez-Pinilla M,Suárez-Pinilla P,Valderas JM,Gómez-Beneyto M,Martinez S,Balanzá-Martínez V,Climent J,Valencia A,McGrath J,Crespo-Facorro B,Sanchez-Moreno J,Vieta E,Tabarés-Seisdedos R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the present study was to find out whether alexithymia is common in frequently attending primary health care patients and whether alexithymia and psychological distress are associated in these patients. METHODS:Alexithymia was measured by the TAS-26 and psychological distress by the SCL-25 in a ra...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Joukamaa M,Karlsson H,Sholman B,Lehtinen V

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the extent of medical comorbidity in depressive illness is widely recognised, there have been few studies where objective and subjective assessment of comorbidity in chronic depression have been made. The aim of this study was to determine the extent and nature of medical comorbidity, in terms of both ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schrader GD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We explored whether medical health workers had more psychosocial problems than nonmedical health workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. METHODS:An online survey was run from February 19 to March 6, 2020; a total of 2,182 Chinese subjects participated. Mental health variables were assessed via the Insomnia Sev...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Zhang WR,Wang K,Yin L,Zhao WF,Xue Q,Peng M,Min BQ,Tian Q,Leng HX,Du JL,Chang H,Yang Y,Li W,Shangguan FF,Yan TY,Dong HQ,Han Y,Wang YP,Cosci F,Wang HX

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insufficient response to monotreatment for depression is a common phenomenon in clinical practice. Even so, evidence indicating how to proceed in such cases is sparse. METHODS:This study looks at the second phase of a sequential treatment algorithm, in which 103 outpatients with moderately severe depression...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Dekker J,Van HL,Hendriksen M,Koelen J,Schoevers RA,Kool S,van Aalst G,Peen J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological parameters were studied over 4.5 months in normal high-school girls. One group frequently practised autogenic training (AT) whereas the other (control) did not. After 4.5 months the physiology of the AT, but not the control group had changed to some extent. The mean increase in finger skin temperature in...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Tebecis AK,Ohno Y,Matsubara H,Sugano H,Takeya T

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies to date have investigated whether in fact the prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and/or use of illicit drugs is higher among models than among other groups of females. METHOD:A group of 63 professional fashion models of various nationalities were studied by means of self-reported questionnaires...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Santonastaso P,Mondini S,Favaro A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attentional bias modification (ABM) is a new treatment for anxiety disorders. Three randomized controlled clinical trials have shown positive effects of ABM in social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. This study investigated the efficacy of ABM in outpatients with chronic posttraumatic stres...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schoorl M,Putman P,Van Der Does W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are difficult to treat and cause high health-care costs. Psychological interventions might be a beneficial option for treating patients with MUS, but evidence is inconsistent. This meta-analysis compares the effectiveness of psychological interventions for M...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Gerger H,Hlavica M,Gaab J,Munder T,Barth J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinicians and researchers synthesize data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antidepressants to make conclusions about the efficacy of medications for depression. All treatments include nonspecific factors in addition to the specific effects of drugs, and study design may influence patient outcomes...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Rutherford BR,Sneed JR,Roose SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Except for 3 case reports of Conn's syndrome presenting as depression, psychosocial factors have not been explored in primary aldosteronism. We investigated psychological correlates in primary aldosteronism using methods that were found to be sensitive and reliable in psychosomatic research. METHOD:Ten cons...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sonino N,Fallo F,Fava GA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive therapy includes a variety of methods. There are two main schools, a currently predominant American one, and an earlier European one. They give different emphasis to the concept of the evolution of human cognition. There is agreement on the particular significance of surmounting absolutist thinking. ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Becker R

更新日期：1990-01-01 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:The Illness Attitude Scales (IAS) were developed by Robert Kellner as a clinimetric index for measuring hypochondriacal fears and beliefs (worry about illness, concerns about pain, health habits, hypochondriacal beliefs, thanatophobia, disease phobia, bodily preoccupations, treatment experience and effects o...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sirri L,Grandi S,Fava GA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Face-to-face psychological treatments have difficulty meeting today's growing mental health needs. For the highly prevalent posttraumatic stress (PTS) conditions, accumulating evidence suggests that writing therapy may constitute an efficient treatment modality, especially when administered through the Inter...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： van Emmerik AA,Reijntjes A,Kamphuis JH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The effectiveness of brief psychotherapy is established, but criteria for the selection of patients remain elusive. This study examines the usefulness of some widely used criteria for the selection of patients for brief psychodynamic therapy (BPT). METHODS:A checklist of 39 criteria often use...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sigal JJ,Paris J,Kardos M,Zimmerman G,Buonvino M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the psychosomatic aspects in self-help groups containing medical patients on the examples of the ostomy group. Following the demonstration of the psychodynamic group processes, the patients' psychological characteristics are described as well as the aims of this type of self-help group. The specific ostomy ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Freyberger H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) offers a reliable method to measure alexithymia, a personality construct describing individuals endorsing the inability to identify and report emotions, processing a minimal fantasy life, utilizing an analytic cognitive style, and tending to somatize. Utilizing four cohorts of both ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Mann LS,Wise TN,Shay L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present study the authors evaluated the relationship between personality traits (according to DSM-III-R) and poor metabolic control in an adult onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus sample (n = 77). METHODS:Personality traits were assessed with the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire--Revised. M...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Orlandini A,Pastore MR,Fossati A,Clerici S,Sergi A,Balini A,Maffei C,Secchi A,Pozza G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00