OBJECTIVE To test the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, to assess if Type-D personality is taxonic or dimensional. Type-D personality is treated as a categorical variable and caseness has been shown to be a risk factor for poor prognosis in coronary heart disease. However, at present, there is no direct evidence to support the assumption that Type D is categoric...

3 Yesim Erim, Yeliz Kahraman, Frank Vitinius, Mingo Beckmann, Sylvia Kröncke, Oliver Witzke 4 Department of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander 5 University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany 6 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, 7 Germany 8 Department of Psychosomatic Medici...

While Internet-based health-related offers for various disorders are increasing, little is known about the way patients with psychosomatic disorders use the Internet. We conducted a questionnaire survey in outpatient clinics at two university hospitals' Departments of Psychosomatic Medicine. Seventy-four percent of N = 274 patients had Internet home access and 60 percent of those patients repor...

From the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel Switzerland (P.G., G.D); Institute of Transcultural Health Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany (H.W., S.S.); Brain, Mind and Healing Program, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States (H.W., S.S.); Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Universi...

We held the liaison case conferences for two adolescent cases with psychosomatic disease in the pediatric ward to understand the patient’s emotional problems and family situations, and to discuss how approach their psychological problems. We considered that the liaison conference played a useful role in both the clinical diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, the liaison conference was useful fo...

Since the establishment of the terms “psychosomatic medicine” and “psychosomatic diseases”, in the psychoanalytic papers of Ferenczi S, Alexander F, Dunbar HF, Deutch H etc, there has been an effort, during the first half of 20th century, by scientists to explore the relation between psychological procedures (specific psychic conflicts, symbolism, childhood traumata, types of personality) and m...

Psychosomatic disorders are the consequences of harmful effects that result from psychic influences on the organic control of tissues.1 The oral cavity is related directly or symbolically to the major human instincts and passions and is linked to potential physical expressions of psychological origin.1 Psychosomatic disorders are defined as disorders characterized by physiological changes that ...

The bulk of this book is made up of a collection of papers from the Second Medical Service, Wilhelmina Gasthius, Amsterdam, which were published in various scientific journals between 1956 and 1960; and this fact might diminish the reader's interest. It would be a pity if so, for they have been edited and arranged and added to, in such a way as to give a most stimulating account of the developm...