Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 1993
The impact of dream interpretation using psychological kinesiology on the frequency of recurring dreams.
Subjects reporting a recurring dream at least 4 times a month for a year or more were assigned to a dream recording control group and an experimental group which used muscle testing to guide dream interpretation. Dream frequency was recorded prior to and following a dream interpretation intervention (experimental subjects) or dream reporting session (control subjects). Dream frequency declined in the experimental group, suggesting that recurring dream frequency is a useful dependent variable, and that psychological kinesiology dream interpretation is a powerful intervention.
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 1991
Influence of psychological and clinical factors on postoperative pain and narcotic consumption.
Demographic, psychological and clinical factors influencing postoperative pain and narcotic analgesic requirements in 162 patients undergoing elective operations under general anesthesia were studied. Eysencks Personality Questionnaire, Foulds Hostility Questionnaire, Zung's Anxiety-Depression (self-rating) Scales and the 43 Item Life Events Inventory by Holmes and Rahe were used. ⋯ Postoperative narcotic requirements increase with increased postoperative pain levels (p = 0.039) and preoccupation with pain postoperatively (p = 0.025), preoperative analgesic drug use (p = 0.017), abdominal surgery (p = 0.009) and longer stay at hospital preoperatively (p = 0.016). Also the department in which the patients were hospitalized influenced narcotic consumption.
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 1991
Personality traits in patients with acute low-back pain. A comparison with chronic low-back pain patients.
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), Depression (D); Cesarek-Marke Personality Scale: Aggression (Agg), Defence of status (Dst), Guilt (Gui); Mood Adjective Check List: (Hedonism, Activity, Calmness = Hed, Act, Clm) and a 'pain questionnaire' including 'pain drawing'. Differences between groups and correlation patterns between test variables indicate that a combination of Hs, Hy, D, Dst, Gui, Hed, Act, Clm as well as predisposition to somatization, Som (a quantification of pain drawing) provides a useful predictive screening instrument.
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 1990
ReviewPsychological distress and quality of life in endocrine disease.
Despite an upsurge of research in psychoneuroendocrinology, there has been very little interest in the psychological aspects of clinical care in endocrine disease. The clinical and research implications of quality of life in endocrinology (life events preceding disease onset, psychological distress associated with acute illness and convalescence, abnormal illness behavior) are discussed.