Chronic pelvic pain as a somatoform disorder.

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：:Recognition of the body-mind dilemma goes back to antiquity. Growth in medical knowledge has produced an ever increasing emphasis on physiological deviations and somatic pathology--which too often is not accompanied by sufficient attention to the total patients. Psychosomatics is now the term often used by those who b...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Dorfman W

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All patients with physical illness have an underlying fantasy concerning why they became sick. This fantasy can be elicited by the consulting psychiatrist and the treating physician. The meaning of the fantasy is consistent with the psychodynamic theory of human behavior. Also, once the fantasy is understood, it can b...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Blumenfield M

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:The present study is part of a longitudinal study of recently resettled refugees with the aim of learning which factors in their daily life influence health as measured by self-report and stress-responsive hormones. METHODS:In a group of recently resettled refugees with a high incidence of posttraumatic str...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Söndergaard HP,Hansson LO,Theorell T

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Compliance is an ancient topic subjected to intense recent scrutiny as a result of scientific and social changes which focus on lifestyle adjustment to chronic illness and emphasize increasing patient involvement in self-care. Difficulties in definition, measurement and research design as well as the complexity of the...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Blackwell B

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:The occurrence of the hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) has often been associated with stress. In this experiment with normal subjects responses of PACO2, respiration rate, heart rate and checklist measures were registered in a stressful, real-life situation, namely waiting for an examination. Heart rate and one checkli...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Garssen B

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：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：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：: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：: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：: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：:Developmental trends in type A behavior and somatic risk factors of coronary heart disease were studied in 842 healthy adolescents and young adults. Type A behavior was measured using the AFMS and the somatic risk factors adopted were serum total cholesterol, LDL and HDL cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, diastolic...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Keltikangas-Järvinen L,Räikkönen K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present study the authors evaluated the relationship between personality traits (according to DSM-III-R) and poor metabolic control in an adult onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus sample (n = 77). METHODS:Personality traits were assessed with the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire--Revised. M...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Orlandini A,Pastore MR,Fossati A,Clerici S,Sergi A,Balini A,Maffei C,Secchi A,Pozza G

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:114 patients with permanent colostomy for carcinoma of the rectum were compared by questionnaire and interview with 110 cancer patients, having undergone colonic resection but not bearing a colostomy. The patients' own assessment of their health was for the colostomy group even better than for the controls. The emotio...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Wirsching M,Drüner HU,Herrmann G

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：: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：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：: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：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：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:Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is the first-choice treatment in clients with ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis. However, CBT is an umbrella term for a plethora of different strategies, and little is known about the association between the intensity and content of CBT and the severity of symptomatic ou...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hartmann JA,McGorry PD,Schmidt SJ,Amminger GP,Yuen HP,Markulev C,Berger GE,Chen EYH,de Haan L,Hickie IB,Lavoie S,McHugh MJ,Mossaheb N,Nieman DH,Nordentoft M,Riecher-Rössler A,Schäfer MR,Schlögelhofer M,Smesny S,Thom

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Serious mental illness (SMI) reduces life expectancy, primarily due to somatic comorbidity linked to obesity. Meta-analyses have found beneficial effects of lifestyle interventions in people with SMI and recommended their implementation to manage obesity. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this systematic review wa...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Speyer H,Jakobsen AS,Westergaard C,Nørgaard HCB,Jørgensen KB,Pisinger C,Krogh J,Hjorthøj C,Nordentoft M,Gluud C,Correll CU

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00