Alternatives to debriefing and modifications to cognitive behavior therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.

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：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：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：: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：:From the moment Max Hamilton started his psychiatric education, he considered psychometrics to be a scientific discipline on a par with biochemistry or pharmacology in clinical research. His clinimetric skills were in operation in the 1950s when randomised clinical trials were established as the method for the evaluat...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Bech P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Based on the situation in the Federal Republic of Germany, this article reviews the development, organization and theoretical framework of in-patient and ward psychosomatic psychotherapy. Indications for treating psychosomatic patients in hospital, the effects of treatment and some results on the process of in-patient...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Strauss B,Burgmeier-Lohse M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with worse cardiac outcomes. This systematic review evaluated whether depressed ACS patients are at differential risk depending on the recurrence and timing of onset of depressive episodes. METHODS:MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO were searched from i...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Zuidersma M,Thombs BD,de Jonge P

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Given the contradictory reports concerning psychophysiological reactivity of hypertensives this issue was reexamined. In contrast to the large majority of studies, the hypertensive sample should not be made up of patients in medical care and the control group should be comparable in all relevant aspects other than blo...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Köhler T,Scherbaum N,Ritz T

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Several studies suggested that the surroundings of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients are of importance in the persistence of complaints. Contrary to what was expected, participation in support groups has not led to clinical improvement. The purpose of the present study was to describe social support in...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Prins JB,Bos E,Huibers MJ,Servaes P,van der Werf SP,van der Meer JW,Bleijenberg G

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ketamine has shown rapid though short-lived antidepressant effects. The possibility of concerning neurobiological changes following repeated exposure to the drug motivates the development of strategies that obviate or minimize the need for longer-term treatment with ketamine. In this open-label trial, we i...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wilkinson ST,Wright D,Fasula MK,Fenton L,Griepp M,Ostroff RB,Sanacora G

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and to compare various psychoanalytic models which are used in the conceptualisation of the processes occurring in small psychotherapeutic groups. Three tendencies are roughly differentiated: (1) the tendency to analyse the individual patient in the group (Slavson, Wolfson an...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Verhaest S,Pierloot R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of the loss of the breast in women undergoing surgical treatment for breast cancer is subordinated to the confrontation with the diagnosis of a malignancy in causing depression. The equal distribution of depression in mastectomy and in lumpectomy patients supports the hypothesis that it is the confrontation...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： van Heeringen C,Van Moffaert M,de Cuypere G

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：: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：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：:In addition to the diagnosis of symptoms we recently proposed the empirical analysis of psychodynamic levels; this paper aims at an empirical study of a third, and most essential, problem area: disturbances and/or regulatory processes of the self-system. Based on Deneke's newly developed questionnaire, 30 anorexia ner...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Engel K,Fuchs M,Meier I,Deneke F

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:The present study compared the efficacy of psychotherapy for childhood anxiety disorders (excluding trials solely treating post-traumatic stress disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder). METHODS:The meta-analysis included studies that met the basic CONSORT (consolidated standards of reporting trials) crit...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： In-Albon T,Schneider S

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：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