Depression after surgery for breast cancer. Comparison of mastectomy and lumpectomy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychiatric disorders are frequent in dermatology patients, and many studies pointed out complex, mutual relationships between psyche and skin. Our aim was to provide a systematic psychosocial evaluation of a large and heterogeneous population of patients with skin diseases, including assessments of quality ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Picardi A,Pasquini P,Abeni D,Fassone G,Mazzotti E,Fava GA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the development of the research activity at a psychiatric clinic near Oslo, Modum Bads Nervesanatorium, a psychotherpeutic-oriented institution treating patients with neuroses, substance abuse and character disorders. In 1985 an institute for clinical research was built as an independent unit with...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Roness A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotic depression was initially considered to be at one end of a continuum of severity of major depression. Subsequent experience demonstrated that psychosis is an independent trait that may accompany mood disorders of varying severity. While much has been learned about the impact of severe mood congruent delusions...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Dubovsky SL,Ghosh BM,Serotte JC,Cranwell V

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychometric analysis on patients with duodenal ulcer using latent structure coefficients (Loevinger and Mokken) showed that the MMPI subscales of depression, psychasthenia, hypochondriasis, hysteria, schizophrenia and social introversion all could be considered as indicators of Eysenck's dimension of neuroticism. B...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Jess P,Bech P

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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:The objective of this study was to assess physicians' perception of their work, organisation and professional development. METHODS:All major disciplines at a major regional hospital were studied. Participants responded to a structured questionnaire concerning broad aspects of physicians' work. The response ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Arnetz BB

更新日期：1997-01-01 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:The relative efficacy of supplemental psychotherapy in the treatment of depression is still a matter of debate. Moreover, the superiority of brief dynamic therapy (BDT) over supportive psychotherapies is not well established. The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of BDT added to medication with th...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Maina G,Rosso G,Crespi C,Bogetto F

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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 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: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：: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：: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：: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：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：BACKGROUND:Over the last years the way in which patients with chronic physical illness respond to their illness (illness behavior) has been explored by several studies. This study sought to examine characteristics of illness behavior and to investigate the association between illness behavior and psychosocial and clini...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Grassi L,Righi R,Makoui S,Sighinolfi L,Ferri S,Ghinelli F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adherence to highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) is critical to long-term treatment success in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, the relationship between psychological variables and medication adherence is still poorly understood. The aim of this study was to inve...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Leombruni P,Fassino S,Lavagnino L,Orofino G,Morosini P,Picardi A

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Nurses make up a considerable proportion of the Swedish health care staff. Few nationally representative studies of their work environment and health, however, have been published. The present questionnaire study on work conditions, skill utilization, health and well-being of a national representative sample of 3,500 ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Petterson IL,Arnetz BB,Arnetz JE,Hörte LG

更新日期：1995-01-01 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: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：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：: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:Despite evidence that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), little is known about which components of therapy are most efficacious. The present study compared the efficacy of CBT with cognitive therapy (CT) and behavioral therapy (BT) for patients with RA. We hypothes...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sharpe L,Schrieber L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00