Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 1988
Variations in anxiety levels during pregnancy and psychosocial factors in relation to obstetric complications.
Patterns of variation of state and trait anxiety during pregnancy and after delivery were studied prospectively in relation to some obstetrical and neonatal disturbances. Specific pregnancy anxiety, social support, and coping style were also evaluated. ⋯ No such variations were found in the women with uncomplicated pregnancies. None of the other psychosocial variables examined were related to complications.
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 1988
Alexithymia: relationship to severity of medical illness and depression.
The relationship of depression and the severity of medical illness to alexithymia was investigated in 75 medically ill patients seen in psychiatric consultation. Both depression and living alone predicted alexithymia but severity of medical illness was not related to an individual's alexithymic characteristics measured by the revised Schalling-Sifneos Scale. The implications of the findings are discussed in relationship to previous data regarding alexithymia in a psychiatric consultation population.