A DISCUSSION of psychological medicine before a medical but non-psychiatric audience best starts with a differentiation of methods and aims of psychological medicine from those of general medicine and surgery. If one speaks of a diagnosis in general medicine, one means a certain pathological or etiological entity, i.e. in speaking of diabetes mellitus one has a fair idea of the pathology and ph...

Cancers are due to an uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells. It is not inco*1' ceivable that the matrix in which these new growths take place may be influence by factors which affect the general physical state. Such factors include the nervo115 system and endocrine glands, which in their turn can undoubtedly come unde| emotional influences. It is a speculative possibility therefore that ...

Paroxysmal hypertension always engenders a search for a catecholamine-secreting pheochromocytoma. Yet 98% of people with paroxysmal hypertension do not have this tumor. The cause and management of paroxysmal hypertension remain a mystery, and the subject of remarkably few papers. This review presents an approach to understanding and successfully treating this disorder. Patients experience sympt...

Luthans, Youssef, Sweetman, and Harms proposed a holistic approach to psychological capital that involves examining psychological capital and its effects across multiple life domains, including work, relationships, and health. This article focuses on the effects of psychological capital on objective health outcomes. Using data from a sample of 1,889 U.S. Army soldiers, we demonstrate that soldi...

A qualitative study was carried out in order to investigate illness representations of people with non-epileptic seizures (NES) in relation to Leventhal's self-regulation or common sense model. Nine participants with NES took part in semi-structured interviews and transcripts were analysed using an approach from interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data were coded according to the five ele...