Advice and Reassurance

Reassurance and Relaxation

authors regard as the basis of most, if not all, forms of neurosis. They adopt a broad humanitarian outlook and wisely stress the importance of the doctor's attitude towards the patient. The need for compassion and for real understanding of the patient's point of view they regard as essential. They also urge the importance of a physical examination of a kind "so thorough that the patient is lef...

Can reassurance hurt ?

Expressive writing, self-criticism, and self-reassurance.

OBJECTIVES Self-criticism and reassurance are important mechanisms for regulating negative emotions but relatively little attention has been paid to interventions aimed at improving them. DESIGN This study explored the use of an expressive writing task to increase self-reassurance and reduce self-criticism using a randomized controlled design. METHOD A total of 46 participants wrote either ...

Breast cancer screening implementation and reassurance.

BACKGROUND Women not offered screening mammography reported higher levels of negative psychosocial aspects than women offered screening. This was demonstrated in a questionnaire survey where 1000 women were included: 500 women living in areas where the public authorities had never offered screening mammography and 500 women living in areas where women had been invited to screening mammography f...

Reassurance: Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms

Bill Anderson Escobar et al.’s discussion of medically unexplained physical symptoms is useful, and could trigger a renewal of how the medical profession works [1]. We are in transition at the present, and what we have been trained for is less and less relevant. This disjunction between our training and practise has given rise to a generation of unhappy doctors. The traditional “doctor” dealt w...