OBJECTIVES This study examined personality, coping styles, and psychosomatic characteristics and their relationships in bereaved and non-bereaved earthquake survivors. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS A survey was conducted with a sample of 102 non-bereaved survivors and 79 bereaved survivors from Mianyang, Anyang, and similar districts 2 weeks after Wenchuan earthquake. Survivo...

Psoriasis is a chronic disease characterized by a genetically determined inflammatory lesions of skin with periods of relapse and remission. The etiology of this disease is very complex. Four major factors contribute to the development of this disease: autoimmune, genetic, hormonal and psychosomatic. It is diagnosed on the basis of observable skin changes and its treatment is one of the most di...

Objective To determine whether a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultation can identify unmet treatment needs and improve treatment of patients with mental disorders in general practice. Methods In 40 primary care practices, 307 consecutive primary patients who met criteria for chronic mental disorders were assessed by a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultant. After random assignment, general prac...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A previous meta-analysis showed that being bullied during childhood is related to psychosomatic problems, but many other studies have been published since then, including some longitudinal studies. We performed a new meta-analysis to quantify the association between peer victimization and psychosomatic complaints in the school-aged population. METHODS: We searched onli...

As far as the editors can determine, the following article by Mildred Edie Brady reprinted from the New Republic of May 26,1947, with the permission of the editors and the author, is a valid presentation of ““The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich.”” In view of the fact that the author of the article suggested that members of the medical profession had not themselves made sufficient effort to warn t...

To assess the long-term predictive utility of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) content scales, 1,960 individuals who had completed the MMPI in college in 1964 or 1965 were administered two measures of adult personality, the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) and the Cook and Medley MMPI Hostility scale, in 1988. A comparison group of 274 men and women in the Baltimore Longitud...

The busy activities of students both in participating on campus and outside the result fatigue trigger emergence stress. Prolonged stress can disrupt health cause physical illness (psychosomatic). Psychosomatics is a triggered by pile negative emotions. affect everyone without exception students. Someone who cannot direct their thoughts feelings properly vulnerable to psychosomatics. psychosoma...

Our present-day understanding of vomiting of pregnancy is a result of the perspectives opened up by psychosomatic medicine. The relationship between vomiting and the attitude toward the child were studied in 100 primiparous women, of whom 68 suffered from vomiting. Verbally expressed attitudes were studied by semistructured interviews. The results show a positive relationship between vomiting a...

Thirsty dogs rewarded by water for bursts of spontaneous salivation showed progressive increases in salivation, while other dogs, rewarded for brief periods without salivation, showed progressive decreases. No obvious motor responses were involved, but dogs rewarded for decreasing salivation appeared more drowsy than those rewarded for increasing it. Implications for learning theory and psychos...