Factor analysis of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale: elucidation of a polythetic construct.

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：: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：BACKGROUND:There is growing evidence that cardiovascular diseases are relatively more prevalent in subjects who feel anxious. An increased clotting diathesis might subject anxious individuals to an elevated arterial thrombotic risk. We investigated whether panic-like anxiety would relate to a hypercoagulable state. ME...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： von Känel R,Kudielka BM,Schulze R,Gander ML,Fischer JE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In bulimia nervosa, more intense treatments are recommended if outpatient treatment fails. This is the first randomized controlled trial comparing the options of inpatient versus day clinic treatment. METHOD:Patients with severe bulimia nervosa were randomly assigned to inpatient or day clinic treatment of ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Zeeck A,Weber S,Sandholz A,Wetzler-Burmeister E,Wirsching M,Hartmann A

更新日期：2009-01-01 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:Stress reduction and comprehensive lifestyle modification programs have improved atherosclerosis and cardiac risk factors in earlier trials. Little is known about the impact of such programs on quality-of-life (QoL) and psychological outcomes. Given recent significant improvements in cardiac care, we evaluat...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Michalsen A,Grossman P,Lehmann N,Knoblauch NT,Paul A,Moebus S,Budde T,Dobos GJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymic characteristics were studied in 15 monozygotic and 18 like-sex dizygotic healthy young twin pairs in a semistructured interview. Variance analysis showed larger within-pair variances in the dizygotic than in the monozygotic twins. With some reservations, these results point to a genetic influence on the et...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Heiberg AN,Heiberg A

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：: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：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：:Psychiatric clinicians frequently prescribe biologic treatments such as antidepressant medication in combination with psychologic treatments such as psychotherapy. In the present article we propose a model integrating antidepressant treatment with Beck's cognitive therapy, a form of psychotherapy with established effi...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Pava JA,Fava M,Levenson JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Bupropion SR (Zyban) has been shown in randomized controlled trials to be an efficacious pharmacological aid for smoking cessation; however, recent reports have raised serious concerns about the breadth of its applicability without complications or contraindications. METHODS:We examined this issue in a well...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Kohlenberg BS,Antonuccio DO,Hayes SC,Gifford EV,Piasecki MP

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:Endocrine and metabolic changes, as well as affective functions, were studied in eight healthy volunteers anticipating and executing a prearranged sequence of aerobatic flight. Control measurements were made at complete physical and mental rest. The following were determined: anxiety and hostility levels, blood glucos...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Pinter EJ,Peterfy G,Cleghorn JM

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:It is generally conceded that allergic disorders occur in individuals who have a hereditary or congenital allergic constitution. Clinical symptoms of allergic disorders, however, often disappear due to changes of the individuals' life situations and/or their adaptive patterns. In a comparative study of allergic predis...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Agõ Y,Teshima H,Nagata S,Inoue S,Ikemi Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relation between psychosomatic and psychosocial symptoms and blood pressure was studied in Swedish schoolchildren. METHODS:Blood pressure was measured in 122 healthy Swedish schoolchildren, aged 6-16 years. Psychosomatic and psychosocial symptoms, delinquent behaviour, parental health and employment sta...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Borres MP,Tanaka H,Thulesius O

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：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:This study compared the effects of a supportive-expressive group intervention (GI) with an educational control condition (EC) on long-term psychosocial adjustment in gay men with HIV infection. METHOD:Subjects (n = 85) were randomized after stratification for disease stage and use of antiretroviral medicati...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Weiss JJ,Mulder CL,Antoni MH,de Vroome EM,Garssen B,Goodkin K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noting concerns for the measurement of alexithymia, the present study attempted (1) to provide descriptive data on the Schalling - Sifneos Personality Scale ( SSPS ); (2) to replicate previous factor-analytic findings on the SSPS , and (3) to suggest an alternative to the present method of scoring the SSPS . A sample ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Martin JB,Pihl RO,Dobkin P

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Past studies have found that medical patients with the diagnosis of depression (comorbidity) have longer hospital lengths of stay (LOS) than those without the diagnosis of depression. This suggested that scores on a depression scale would be positively correlated with LOS. On a rehabilitation ward, 14 stroke and 17 am...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schubert DS,Burns R,Paras W,Sioson E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies described in this paper provide evidence for the importance of social factors in determining the response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (H-P-A) system to stress. The presence of familiar social partners can reduce or eliminate the cortisol response to either loss of a significant social relationshi...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Levine S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests substantial comorbidity between symptoms of somatization and depression in clinical as well as nonclinical populations. However, as most existing research has been retrospective or cross-sectional in design, very little is known about the specific nature of this relationship. In particular,...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Terre L,Poston WS,Foreyt J,St Jeor ST

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concerns about the risk-benefit ratio of treatment with antidepressants in the light of recent evidence pointing to a risk of suicide induction during the course of treatment with antidepressants. These concerns have led to a series of recent studies exploring national rates of suicide and correlating these ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Reseland S,Le Noury J,Aldred G,Healy D

更新日期：2008-01-01 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