Psychosomatic medicine: integrating dynamic, behavioral and biological perspectives.

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：: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：BACKGROUND:Stress has been associated with the course of Tourette's syndrome (TS). METHODS:The case report presented aims to emphasize the effect a severe traumatic experience has on the expression of TS. RESULTS:Following an intense traumatic experience, combat-related, a relatively mild case of TS became intractabl...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Witzum E,Bar-On R,Dolberg OT,Kotler M

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:Eighty morbidly obese married women and 69 of their husbands completed a self-report measure of personal and marital adjustment before the women proceeded to gastric restriction surgery. Fifty-five women and 41 husbands repeated the measure 12 months after surgery, at which time the women had lost a mean of 35.4 kg. W...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hafner RJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placebo effects are often attributed to clinical interactions and contextual factors that affect expectations of the patient about the treatment and result in symptom changes. The prevailing conceptualization consists of an undifferentiated placebo response that needs to be minimized in controlled investigations and m...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Fava GA,Guidi J,Rafanelli C,Rickels K

更新日期：2017-01-01 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: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：:The therapist in biofeedback training plays the role of a teacher or coach. This role, derived from learning theory and practiced in the classroom and playing field, imposes special constraints upon the psychotherapeutic situation. The therapist must be capable of physiological manipulation in self before attempting t...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Amar PB

更新日期：1978-01-01 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: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：:The pathogenesis of psychosomatic distress is considered. This emphasises interest in aetiology of distress rather than solely of disease. The influence of psychological aspects is as important whether the disease is of known or unknown aetiology, and can be of greater importance in poorer socio-economic circumstances...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Aitken C

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：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：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：:The purpose of this investigation was to measure alexithymia in 90 newly abstinent alcoholism treatment candidates and to examine the relationship between alexithymia and depressive symptoms. Subjects completed the Schalling-Sifneos Personality Scale (SSPS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) at the time of applic...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Haviland MG,MacMurray JP,Cummings MA

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：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：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：:Clinical and laboratory observations of alexithymia suggest that a neurophysiologic hypothesis may be more useful than the traditional psychodynamic explanations for understanding psychosomatic processes. Current data support the concept of a functional disconnection between the two cerebral hemispheres. A mechanism f...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Shipko S

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：:Psychodynamics can interfere with medical compliance, especially in psychologically vulnerable patients. A case is presented of a cancer patient who developed a powerful transference reaction to her oncologist, jeopardizing her treatment for cancer. Strategies for integrating techniques of insight-oriented psychothera...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wyszynski AA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with poor insight has severe consequences for patients; nonetheless, no randomized controlled trial has ever been performed to evaluate the effectiveness of any treatment specifically for poor-insight OCD. A new psychotherapy for OCD, the inference-based approach (IBA), tar...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Visser HA,van Megen H,van Oppen P,Eikelenboom M,Hoogendorn AW,Kaarsemaker M,van Balkom AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Previous research has indicated a tendency among type A individuals to report less subjective arousal than type B individuals. Differences in attentional style between type A and type B individuals have been suggested to account for this tendency. The present paper describes a study which employed adult male subjects ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Roldan FH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:51 patients on chronic dialysis, awaiting transplantation, were assessed using a standardised psychiatric interview, together with measures of anxiety, depression, locus of control and social adjustment. 33% of the patients warranted a psychiatric diagnosis. During the study period, 30 patients received a transplanted...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sensky T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exercise training may be especially helpful for patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). We conducted a randomized controlled trial to quantify the effects of 6 weeks of resistance (RET) or aerobic exercise training (AET) on remission and worry symptoms among sedentary patients with GAD. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Herring MP,Jacob ML,Suveg C,Dishman RK,O'Connor PJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Thirteen alexithymic patients and 13 panic disorder patients were compared with matched controls regarding their use of self-solacing strategies. Whereas the panic disorder group used significantly more (p less than 0.001) solacing objects, activities and sounds than normals, the alexithymic subjects used significantl...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Horton PC,Gewirtz H,Kreutter KJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00