The goal of this review is to discuss the psychiatric aspects of pain in cancer patients from a biopsychosocial approach. Pain in cancer patients is considered as a complex reaction causing severe suffering and involves many psychological aspects. It has many dimensions such as personality, affect, cognition and social relations. The pain experience may also be influenced by some psychological ...

[Received July 7, 1947.] IT has been common experience of the two World Wars that, whereas the venereal diseases rate amongst the civilian population 'rises steeply during the war period, the most marked increase in the Army incidence is, in all Armies, in the immediate post-war period. . . In South-East Asia Command, in which theatre this present survey was made, the end of the Japanese War ha...

BACKGROUND Many studies have shown that emotional factors play a part in asthma, but few have compared patients with differing severities of asthma. It was our impression that patients with "brittle" asthma (BA; more than 40% diurnal variation in peak flow on 15 or more days a month over a period of at least six months, and persistent symptoms despite multiple drug treatment) had greater psycho...

Thirty women patients who were hysterectomized for non-malignant pathologies were compared with thirty comparable patients who underwent other gynaecological operations. Each patient was subjected to semistructured psychiatric interview, standardised Hindi version of G.H.Q., Hindi version of PEN, I.P.I.S. and BDRI. The diagnosis was made according to I.C.D. - 9. It was observed that patients un...

INTRODUCTION A GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF DISEASE COMMUNICATION MAJOR WORLD WAR II DISEASES: THE BIG FOUR Tuberculosis Venereal Diseases Malaria Hepatitis OTHER INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES IN WORLD WAR II THE BIG FOUR IN KOREA THE BIG FOUR IN VIETNAM PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF THE BIG FOUR Tuberculosis and Screening Venereal Diseases and Ambulatory Treatment Malaria and Vector Transmission Hepati...

In recent years, a number of studies have attempted to characterize psychological disturbances related to various sleep disorders. The objective of this type of research is to investigate the possibility that psychopathology may represent an etiological factor, a complication, and/or a target for treatment. In addition, disordered sleep can present itself in a complex and atypical fashion in wh...

[Received July 7, 1947.] IT has been common experience of the two World Wars that, whereas the venereal diseases rate amongst the civilian population 'rises steeply during the war period, the most marked increase in the Army incidence is, in all Armies, in the immediate post-war period. . . In South-East Asia Command, in which theatre this present survey was made, the end of the Japanese War ha...