Mindfulness-based stress reduction as an adjunct to outpatient psychotherapy.

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：: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 personality trait of alexithymia was assessed in 95 patients (35 male, 60 female) with affective illnesses, receiving lithium prophylactically, by means of Schalling-Sifneos Personality Scale (SSPS). The mean SSPS score was similar to that of the healthy population: only 8 patients had a score below 50 points. No ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Rybakowski JK,Dyson WL,Amsterdam JD

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: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：BACKGROUND:According to Grawe's psychological therapy approach, conflict reduction can be expected not only in psychodynamic, but also in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This was tested in an effectiveness study. Changes in cognitive conflicts, along with those of symptom severity and well-being were analyzed durin...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hoyer J,Fecht J,Lauterbach W,Schneider R

更新日期：2001-07-01 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:Persistent cue reactivity to drug-related stimuli is a well-known phenomenon among abstinent drug users and has been found to be a predictor of relapse. Cue exposure therapy (CET) aims to reduce this cue reactivity by exposing abstinent drug users to conditioned drug-related stimuli while preventing their ha...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Marissen MA,Franken IH,Blanken P,van den Brink W,Hendriks VM

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：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 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 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：:The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) offers a reliable method to measure alexithymia, a personality construct describing individuals endorsing the inability to identify and report emotions, processing a minimal fantasy life, utilizing an analytic cognitive style, and tending to somatize. Utilizing four cohorts of both ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Mann LS,Wise TN,Shay L

更新日期：1992-01-01 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: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：:Metatherapy (a psychotherapeutic procedure based upon parental couple collaboration) is a technique useful for working with severely disorganized family contexts, in which psychopathological diseases (such as psychotic or psychosomatic disorders, suicide attempts of the children etc.) can appear. The management of the...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Vaz-Leal FJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of the specificity of psychosomatic diseases (Alexander) is being differentiated at the time. In order to clarify some aspects of this problem, we want to investigate whether types of self-rating of normal persons differ from those of patients with bronchial asthma. In a second step we shall examine whethe...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Deter HC,Schepank H

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To study the effects of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and dissociation as well as cumulative symptom load on language learning during the introduction phase in re-settled refugees. METHOD:Participants were re-settled refugees of Iraqi origin. They were assessed by means of a st...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Söndergaard HP,Theorell T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growing evidence has been collected about the high prevalence of psychological distress in primary care. The role of psychosocial variables, namely the role of support from the patients' interpersonal ties, has not been extensively explored. METHODS:The study investigated the relationship between perceived ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Grassi L,Rasconi G,Pedriali A,Corridoni A,Bevilacqua M

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：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：:The Derogatis Stress Profile (DSP) is unique among the numerous measures of 'stress' in that it incorporates the interactional model of Lazarus and Folkman in a multidimensional structure. Derogatis has studied the psychometric properties of the DSP but its validity has not been demonstrated in the 'real world' nor ha...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Dobkin PL,Pihl RO,Breault C

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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: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：: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：: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：:A twelve-session therapy model ad modum James Mann is described. Selection criteria are outlined. The therapies and systematic follow-up data of 4 well-adjusted and 4 less well-adjusted patients are described and compared. Some modifications of technique for the less well-adjusted patients are proposed. ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Høglend P

更新日期：1988-01-01 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