Alexithymia and somatic conditions in patients with affective illnesses during lithium prophylaxis.

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：:Alexithymic characteristics were examined in a sample of 30 patients fulfilling the DSM-III criteria for psychogenic pain disorder using an interviewer-rated scale (Beth Israel Hospital Psychosomatic Questionnaire), a self-rated scale (Toronto Alexithymia Scale) and a projective technique (Thematic Apperception Test)....

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sriram TG,Chaturvedi SK,Gopinath PS,Shanmugam V

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare hypochondriacal phenomena in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (PD), and in order to examine the relationship between worries about illness on one hand, and disease fears/phobias and hypochondriacal beliefs on the other, the authors administered the Illness Attitud...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Starcevic V,Fallon S,Uhlenhuth EH,Pathak D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:114 patients with permanent colostomy for carcinoma of the rectum were compared by questionnaire and interview with 110 cancer patients, having undergone colonic resection but not bearing a colostomy. The patients' own assessment of their health was for the colostomy group even better than for the controls. The emotio...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wirsching M,Drüner HU,Herrmann G

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between psychological variables, particularly depressed mood and anxiety, and pain has received a good deal of attention. In this study, 16 chronic pain patients rated their mood, anxiety level, pain, muscle tension, and reclining time daily over a period of about 6 weeks. Correlations were calculated...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Linton SJ,Götestam KG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is one of the most frequent and costly mental disorders. While there is increasing evidence for the efficacy of online self-help to improve depression or prevent relapse, there is little evidence in blended care settings, especially combined with inpatient face-to-face psychotherapy. Therefore, we...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Zwerenz R,Becker J,Knickenberg RJ,Siepmann M,Hagen K,Beutel ME

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 aim of this study was to investigate the clinical features of psychosomatic disorders in Japan. METHODS:A total of 1,432 outpatients (515 males and 917 females; 9-95 years of age, mean age 36) attending a psychosomatic clinic for the first time were assessed by the DSM-III-R or DSM-IV semistructured int...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Nakao M,Nomura S,Yamanaka G,Kumano H,Kuboki T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined (1) strength of stress, (2) awareness of stress, and (3) influence of type A behavior and narcissistic personality on stress and its related factors in a sample of 500 middle-aged women. Compared to 400 middle-aged working men, the women scored lower on the type A and coping scales, suggesting the...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Fukunishi I,Moroji T,Okabe S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatic illness and its consequences evoke strong emotions of various kinds. They may affect the course of illness and the treatment results through their physiological components. The purpose of the study was to explore emotional reactions to different kinds of illnesses and changes of these emotions over t...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Heszen-Niejodek I,Gottschalk LA,Januszek M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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:Scarce data are available on the influence of psychological aspects on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure patterns either in normotensive or hypertensive subjects. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between psychological profile and changes in daytime/nighttime blood pressure rhythm. METHOD...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Fallo F,Barzon L,Rabbia F,Navarrini C,Conterno A,Veglio F,Cazzaro M,Fava GA,Sonino N

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The political or ecological concept of quality of life refers to irreplaceable aspects of life. The health-related quality of life concept has the same impact of considering the irreplaceable (idiographic) aspects of treatment outcome in patients with chronic disorders. When comparing the different attempts to measure...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Bech P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) programmes for bulimia nervosa (BN) have been considerably refined during the last 2 decades, and such a treatment is now extensively used. The present paper describes the treatment rationale and structure, and reviews the available evidence on its efficacy. Compared to any other ps...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Ricca V,Mannucci E,Zucchi T,Rotella CM,Faravelli C

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of psychodynamic, behavioral and biological perspectives is necessary to fully practice contemporary psychosomatic medicine. This discipline is best exemplified by the activities within consultation-liaison psychiatry. Common clinical tasks within consultation-liaison work are discussed from this integrate...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wise TN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies and case histories involving the use of biofeedback and behavioral approaches throughout Japan have been selected from Japanese journals and summarized. Areas of biofeedback research covered are experimental, clinical and psychological/educational. The behavioral approaches mentioned have been limi...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Ishikawa H,Robinson A

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:In open and randomized controlled trials self-exposure therapy reduced the frequency of nightmares but follow-up ceased at 7 months post-entry. METHOD:Ten adults who attended an outpatient clinic and had DSM-IV nightmare disorder were put on a 3-month waiting-list. After 3 months they were given a self-expo...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Grandi S,Fabbri S,Panattoni N,Gonnella E,Marks I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of short-term dynamic psychotherapy is, through working with a central conflict and transference reactions, to obtain lasting changes based on cognitive and emotional understanding of the main dynamics of the central conflict, called insight. The aim of the present study was to construct a follow-up form that ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Husby R,Dahl AA,Dahl CI,Heiberg AN,Olafsen OM,Weisaeth L

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：:In a prospective study to identify psychological factors affecting survival in cancer patients receiving radiation therapy, 101 consecutive patients were evaluated for anxiety, depression, and perception of the seriousness of the condition. In 3 years, the survivors were compared to the nonsurvivors. The survivors had...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Leigh H,Percarpio B,Opsahl C,Ungerer J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parent-child treatments have been shown to be superior to child-focused treatments of childhood obesity. Yet until now, the comparative effectiveness of parent-only and parent-child approaches has been little studied. METHOD:Fifty-six obese children and their families were randomly assigned to a 16-session ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Munsch S,Roth B,Michael T,Meyer AH,Biedert E,Roth S,Speck V,Zumsteg U,Isler E,Margraf J

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:In a small pilot controlled study over 8 weeks, 12 obsessive-compulsive ruminators listened for 2 h daily to their own audiotaped voice either (1) describing their anxiogenic thoughts (exposure) but omitting anxiolytic thoughts (mental/cognitive rituals), or (2) reading neutral prose or poetry. Taking all patients, bo...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Lovell K,Marks IM,Noshirvani H,O'Sullivan G

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:This paper presents the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network. The research program encompasses a coordinated group of studies adopting a standard protocol and an agreed-on set of standardized measures for the assessment and treatment of social phobia (SP). In the central project (study A), a multicenter random...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Leichsenring F,Hoyer J,Beutel M,Herpertz S,Hiller W,Irle E,Joraschky P,Konig HH,de Liz TM,Nolting B,Pohlmann K,Salzer S,Schauenburg H,Stangier U,Strauss B,Subic-Wrana C,Vormfelde S,Weniger G,Willutzki U,Wiltink J,

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00