Do somatic complaints predict subsequent symptoms of depression?

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：BACKGROUND:Stress has been associated with the course of Tourette's syndrome (TS). METHODS:The case report presented aims to emphasize the effect a severe traumatic experience has on the expression of TS. RESULTS:Following an intense traumatic experience, combat-related, a relatively mild case of TS became intractabl...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Witzum E,Bar-On R,Dolberg OT,Kotler M

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Depressive syndromes that do not comply with the diagnostic criteria for specific depressive disorders are designated as 'subclinical' or 'subsyndromal' depressive syndromes. Using our own data from a clinical study, this paper outlines the significance of subclinical depressive syndromes and demonstrates th...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schneider G,Kruse A,Nehen HG,Senf W,Heuft G

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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: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：BACKGROUND:Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a poorly understood condition in which patients report symptoms following perceived exposure to weak electromagnetic fields (EMFs) such as those produced by mobile phones or visual display units. Little is known about the aetiology of the condition although experimen...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Rubin GJ,Das Munshi J,Wessely S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:48 patients with alopecia areata, 30 with common baldness, 30 with fungal infections underwent the Paykel's Interview for recent life events. In the 6 months preceding onset, alopecic patients reported 123 events (mean = 2.56), patients with common baldness 22 events (mean = 0.73), patients with fungal infections 15 (...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Perini GI,Veller Fornasa C,Cipriani R,Bettin A,Zecchino F,Peserico A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A specific psychotherapy for chronic depression, the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP), was compared to escitalopram (ESC). METHODS:Sixty patients with chronic major depression were randomized to 'CBASP' (22 sessions) or 'ESC plus clinical management' (ESC/CM) at two treatment si...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schramm E,Zobel I,Schoepf D,Fangmeier T,Schnell K,Walter H,Drost S,Schmidt P,Brakemeier EL,Berger M,Normann C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alexithymia and psychopathology may influence the way individuals experience psychological distress and somatic symptoms. This study evaluated patients referred to psychiatric and gastroenterologic outpatient settings in order to investigate the levels of alexithymia and psychopathology, and the possible rol...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Porcelli P,Affatati V,Bellomo A,De Carne M,Todarello O,Taylor GJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypnosis as an intrapsychological and interpersonal experience is used as an integrative and amplifying procedure in relation to biofeedback mechanism and behavior therapy. The hypnotic capacity for linking cognitive to affective reactions within a feedback loop of sensory and motor imagery is presented as a dynamic a...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Kline MV

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Psychodynamics can interfere with medical compliance, especially in psychologically vulnerable patients. A case is presented of a cancer patient who developed a powerful transference reaction to her oncologist, jeopardizing her treatment for cancer. Strategies for integrating techniques of insight-oriented psychothera...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wyszynski AA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The borderline has deficiencies in the capacity to maintain stable self and object representations and in establishing 'emotional separateness' from others. In order to create and maintain a 'propitious treatment situation' and a 'therapeutic alliance' the therapist must work with unusual sensitivity and repetitivenes...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Leibovich MA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osgood's Semantic Differential was applied to a group of 35 neurotic patients at initial and final stage of individual psychoanalytical psychotherapy. When compared to 'normal' subjects who had not undergone treatment but were examined under the same conditions, neurotic subjects showed, between test and retest, more ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Bovet J,Gilliéron E,Spagnoli J,Meylan D

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:An approach to the psychotherapy of ego-depleted states or with morbid disease involves the commitment of the therapist far beyond a distant psychoanalytic stance. Engagement must occur before a therapeutic alliance and exploration of underlying issues can begin. The patient in a helpless state needs the therapist's c...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Nadelson T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the present study was to clarify the relationship between the recognition of emotion and physiological response to emotion (i.e. arousal) in alexithymia. METHODS:This study investigated differences in physiological arousal state, as measured by continuous heart rate, electrodermal activity (E...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Stone LA,Nielson KA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty morbidly obese married women and 69 of their husbands completed a self-report measure of personal and marital adjustment before the women proceeded to gastric restriction surgery. Fifty-five women and 41 husbands repeated the measure 12 months after surgery, at which time the women had lost a mean of 35.4 kg. W...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hafner RJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Face-to-face psychological treatments have difficulty meeting today's growing mental health needs. For the highly prevalent posttraumatic stress (PTS) conditions, accumulating evidence suggests that writing therapy may constitute an efficient treatment modality, especially when administered through the Inter...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： van Emmerik AA,Reijntjes A,Kamphuis JH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author discusses the development of the psychosomatic asthma theory as a paradigm of theory formation in psychomatic medicine. The first formulation of the theory was based on clinical and psychiatric observations. It was tested by psychological, physiological and experimental methods and as a result was reformula...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Groen JJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 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: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：: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：INTRODUCTION:Worries about the immediate and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic may for some individuals develop into pervasive worry that is disproportionate in its intensity or duration and significantly interferes with everyday life. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate if a brief self-gu...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wahlund T,Mataix-Cols D,Olofsdotter Lauri K,de Schipper E,Ljótsson B,Aspvall K,Andersson E

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary results are reported on the efficacy of a behaviorally oriented group therapy (n = 17) intended to improve coping with fear of long-term complications in patients with diabetes mellitus. Treatment consisted of exposure in imagination, relaxation training and analysis of dysfunctional health beliefs. Pre-, ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Zettler A,Duran G,Waadt S,Herschbach P,Strian F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The archetypal test with 9 elements (AT9), a tracer of symbolic function, was completed by 30 pain patients in whom alexithymia had been measured by two means: the Beth Israel psychosomatic questionnaire (BIQ) and the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) alexithymia scale. Results show a correlation of a...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Demers-Desrosiers LA,Cohen KR,Catchlove RF,Ramsay RA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between personality characteristics and body awareness, defined as the attention paid to different body zones and measured by means of the Fisher Body Focus Questionnaire, is examined in two ways in groups of medical and dental students: (1) Our results replicate fairly well the relation, reported by Fish...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Vinck J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00