BACKGROUND In Japan and Asia, few studies have been done of physical and sexual abuse. This study was aimed to determine whether a history of childhood physical abuse is associated with anxiety, depression and self-injurious behavior in outpatients with psychosomatic symptoms. METHODS We divided 564 consecutive new outpatients at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of Kyushu University H...

abstract   background: a significant relationship between psychiatric disorders principally depression and anxiety and insomnia is well-known in general population. ahigh percent of insomnia sufferers report anxiety symptoms. anxiety is also frequently seen in medical patients whom complaints of sleep problems are often prominent.   method: 250 outpatients with various medical complaints partic...

Pain and chronic somatic diseases often accompany depressive and anxiety disorders in the general population. Co-morbidity of physical and mental ill health often leads to a high burden at a personal level due to problems with treatment adherence, decreased treatment response, and social and occupational disability, and also to a huge societal burden due to loss in work days and high health car...

abstract explaining the etiology of complex regional pain syndrome (crps) from the psychogenic model is exceedingly unsophisticated, because neurocognitive deficits, neuroanatomical abnormalities, and distortions in cognitive mapping are features of crps pathology. more importantly, many people who have developed crps have no history of mental illness. the psychogenic model offers comfort to ph...