OBJECTIVE Few studies have been published on health care utilization in Crohn's disease and the influence of psychological treatment on high utilizers. METHODS The present sub study of a prospective multi center investigation conducted in 87 of 488 consecutive Crohn's disease (CD) patients was designed to investigate the influence of the course of Crohn's disease on health care utilization (h...

A,LDDISON'S DISEASE has been generally considered in the literature from the point of view of pathophysiology of the adrenal gland, and the various symptomatic manifestations of the disease have been interpreted usually as direct reflections of the adrenocortical defect. Nearly all clinical descriptions of the disease, however, mention the so-called "nervous and mental" concomitants, which repr...

Many skin disorders have a significant psychosomatic component. Focused history-taking coupled with hypnoanalysis using ideomotor finger signals to detect positive responses to one or more of 7 common triggering or exacerbating factors permits systematic diagnosis of the presence or absence of a significant psychosomatic component. If no factor is positive, a psychosomatic component to the skin...

BACKGROUND Problematic Internet use (PIU) is a growing problem in Chinese adolescents. Little is known about associations of PIU with physical and psychological health. This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of PIU and to test the relationships between PIU and psychosomatic symptoms and life satisfaction among adolescents in mainland China. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was ...

Two scientific European organizations in the field of consultationliaison (C-L) psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine (PM), the European Association of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (EACLPP) and the European Network of Psychosomatic Medicine (ENPM) decided to merge and together create a new society, the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM). The EACLPPwas fo...

INTRODUCTION Chronic prostatitis is a widespread urological disease with a lengthy course and a propensity to frequent recurrences. Adequate response to anti-inflammatory therapy is lacking in a high percentage of patients, which causes them to seek medical advice from different doctors. Thus, the physicians are challenged to look for other reasons causing the pathological symptoms. MATERIAL ...

BACKGROUND Numerous psychosomatic diseases, especially cardiovascular, are regarded as diseases of modern civilization. Psychological factors play a dominant role in these diseases. Among these factors we can distinguish several different types of emotional functioning and subjective estimation of patients' quality of life (QoL). AIM To assess the level of QoL and types of emotional functioni...

My tlide, taken from the King James Bible, became rather more apt when I tumed to the New Enlish Bible of 1970. Here the word "thought" is more precisely translated as "anxious thought"; and it is the rela¢i between anxious thought and stature, between emotional and bodily processes, that I am discussing. This lecture commemorates Charles West, to whom children's hospitals and children owe so m...

Mistletoe preparations such as Iscador are in common use as complementary/anthroposophic medications for many cancer indications, particularly for solid cancers. The efficacy is still discussed controversially. This paper presents an individual patient data meta-analysis of all published prospective matched-pair studies with breast cancer patients concerned with long-term application of a compl...