A possible genetic contribution to the alexithymia trait.

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：:We have described examples of behaviors that occur antecedent to, concurrent with, or as a consequence of childhood asthma. Ways these patterns can be altered have also been described. Three points should be emphasized: first, social learning techniques can contribute to a child acquiring self-monitoring and self-mana...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Creer TL,Burns KL

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of the connection of alexithymic characteristics to many stress-related disorders, little is known about the effects of these characteristics on the self-perception of stress, which may have functional value in the regulation of daily behavior. The present study assessed the influence of alexithymic...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Näätänen P,Ryynänen A,Keltikangas-Järvinen L

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Previous studies of cancer patients investigated the effect of psychological treatment on basal endocrine and immune values. Using a randomized experiment, we explored the effect of a 13-week experiential-existential group psychotherapy (EEGP) program on the reactivity to a speech task in breast cancer pat...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： van der Pompe G,Antoni MH,Duivenvoorden HJ,de Graeff A,Simonis RF,van der Vegt SG,Heijnen CJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noting concerns for the measurement of alexithymia, the present study attempted (1) to provide descriptive data on the Schalling - Sifneos Personality Scale ( SSPS ); (2) to replicate previous factor-analytic findings on the SSPS , and (3) to suggest an alternative to the present method of scoring the SSPS . A sample ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Martin JB,Pihl RO,Dobkin P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this prospective study a psychological test (the "Maastricht Questionnaire') was constructed which measures feelings of vital exhaustion and depression. It is shown that those subjects who have elevated scores on this test have more chance to get a new coronary event within a period of 10 months than those who have...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Appels A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

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：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：:A retrospective chart review of 600 general hospital patients, of whom 200 had been admitted to a medical-psychiatric unit, 200 to a conventional psychiatric unit and 200 to medical-surgical units, and for whom psychiatric consultation had been requested, disclosed significant differences in the patient populations of...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Fava GA,Wise TN,Molnar G,Zielezny M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing attention has been given to the transparency of potential conflicts of interest in clinical medicine and biomedical sciences, particularly in journal publishing and science advisory panels. The authors examined the degree and type of financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry of panel members r...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Cosgrove L,Krimsky S,Vijayaraghavan M,Schneider L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies described in this paper provide evidence for the importance of social factors in determining the response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (H-P-A) system to stress. The presence of familiar social partners can reduce or eliminate the cortisol response to either loss of a significant social relationshi...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Levine S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relevance of an article is a highly desirable yet hardly predictable quality at the time of its publication. Article relevance is frequently measured by the impact factor of the journal where the article is published. Furthermore, impact factor, citation index and citation analysis are used as a measure of research pr...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Balon R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychopathology and verbal expression were investigated in 20 psychoneurotic patients and 20 psychosomatic patients (10 patients with ulcerative colitis and 10 patients with Crohn's disease). The Crohn's disease patients showed as much psychopathology as the psychoneurotic patients, but the ulcerative colitis patients...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Taylor G,Doody K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with medically unexplained or functional somatic symptoms (FSS) are prevalent in primary care. In this pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial we aimed to test the effect of a training programme (The Extended Reattribution and Management model) for general practitioners (GPs) in the treatment ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Toft T,Rosendal M,Ørnbøl E,Olesen F,Frostholm L,Fink P

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:48 patients with alopecia areata, 30 with common baldness, 30 with fungal infections underwent the Paykel's Interview for recent life events. In the 6 months preceding onset, alopecic patients reported 123 events (mean = 2.56), patients with common baldness 22 events (mean = 0.73), patients with fungal infections 15 (...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Perini GI,Veller Fornasa C,Cipriani R,Bettin A,Zecchino F,Peserico A

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：: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：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：:In the present study of 253 patients with chronic pain syndrome we have made a multidimensional approach. All patients have been included in the study independent of coexisting states of anxiety or depression. We included criteria for diagnosis, duration, generability and intensity of pain, anxiety and depression, psy...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Poulsen DL,Hansen HJ,Langemark M,Olesen J,Bech P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper traces the author's empirical research journey into the measurement of symbolic function as a dimension of alexithymia. The archetypal test with 9 elements (AT9) is proposed as a tool to discrimnate between forms and degrees of disorganization in symbolic behavior of alexithymic subjects. The results seem t...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Demers-Desrosiers LA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phobic patients have been shown to be, on average, more hypnotizable than others. The essence of the phobic experience is not unlike that of the event of hypnosis, and the phobic experience might be a spontaneously occurring panic-filled trance-like or dissociative experience. This dissociation is viewed as a maladapt...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Frankel FH

更新日期：1981-01-01 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:There is a scarcity of published studies of the effects of cardiac counselling among professional drivers (PD). Aims of the study were: (1) to examine explanatory variables for two classical 'driver' risk factors - body mass index (BMI), and smoking - and to analyse the interrelations among smoking cessation...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Emdad R,Belkic K,Theorell T,Cizinsky S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of illness behavior was introduced to indicate the ways in which given symptoms may be perceived, evaluated and acted upon at an individual level. Illness behavior may vary greatly according to illness-related, patient-related and doctor-related variables and their complex interactions. In the past decades...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sirri L,Fava GA,Sonino N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of denial is important for the psychosomatic understanding of cardiovascular disease and treatment. This study evaluated denial using several psychometric assessment scales in patients referred for psychiatric evaluations prior to heart transplantation. Surviving patients who had a mean survival of more th...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Young LD,Schweiger J,Beitzinger J,McManus R,Bloedel C,Koob J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research reveals an association between traumatic stress and an increased risk for numerous diseases, including cancer. At the molecular level, stress may increase carcinogenesis via increased DNA damage and impaired DNA repair mechanisms. We assessed DNA breakage in peripheral blood mononuclear cel...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Morath J,Moreno-Villanueva M,Hamuni G,Kolassa S,Ruf-Leuschner M,Schauer M,Elbert T,Bürkle A,Kolassa IT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study compared the effects of a supportive-expressive group intervention (GI) with an educational control condition (EC) on long-term psychosocial adjustment in gay men with HIV infection. METHOD:Subjects (n = 85) were randomized after stratification for disease stage and use of antiretroviral medicati...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Weiss JJ,Mulder CL,Antoni MH,de Vroome EM,Garssen B,Goodkin K

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:An overview is presented of psychosomatic problems in women - the epidemiology, physiology and psychology. Surveys of sickness rates in women and psychological studies are used as a basis of speculation about higher female morbidity rates. Theories of psychosomatic illness, the somatic concomitants of hysteria and ale...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Apfel RJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00