In psychiatry, most diagnoses are descriptions of behaviour or of phenomena reported by the patient, whereas in somatic medicine a diagnosis usually includes the pathological process underlying a syndrome or a symptom. Consequently, when a group of conditions were delineated which appeared to be of somatic origin, yet for which no organic cause was apparent, it was not surprising that terms imp...

Background: Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are highly prevalent, frequently co-occurring with psychiatric such as depression, alexithymia, and anxiety. Objective: To evaluate the relation between anxiety, alexithymia severity of somatic in patients MUPS. Method: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 196 suffering from The were recruited tertiary care internal medicine neu...

OBJECTIVE A strong association has been established between migraine and depression. However, this is the first study to differentiate in a large sample of migraine patients for symptom dimensions of the affective disorder spectrum. METHODS Migraine patients (n=3174) from the LUMINA (Leiden University Medical Centre Migraine Neuro-analysis Program) study and patients with current psychopathol...

We studied the characteristics of the Hungarian version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen et al., 1983) based on data from 217 persons willing to participate in a stressmanagement program (Williams LifeSkills Program). The shorter versions of the questionnaire (PSS10, PSS4) were strongly correlated (r = 0,99 and 0,93) to the original 14item questionnaire (PSS14), the internal consistenc...

OBJECTIVES Overall success of current tinnitus therapies is low, which may be due to the heterogeneity of tinnitus patients. Therefore, subclassification of tinnitus patients is expected to improve therapeutic allocation, which, in turn, is hoped to improve therapeutic success for the individual patient. The present study aims to define factors that differentially influence subjectively perceiv...

INTRODUCTION During the war circumstances, women and children are exposed to multiple traumatic experiences, one of which is an violent disappearance of a family member. GOAL The aim of this research was to establish the presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatization in women in Bosnia and Herzegovina who have sought their war missing family members for 15 to 18 years. SUBJECT...

Craving is an uncontrollable impulse to assume abusive substances, often associated with intense anxiety, dysphoria, irritability, agitation, impulsive or explosive behaviours, as well as with somatic symptoms such as headache and asthenia. Craving can be separated into two components: an ‘appetitive craving’, that is searching for the abusive substance as a source of pleasure, and an ‘aversive...

BACKGROUND Patients with depression often experience pain. There is limited understanding of the relation between pain and other symptoms (depressive, anxious and non-painful somatic symptoms). This exploratory study assesses pain severity and interference of pain with functioning in a clinically depressed population and investigates the relation between the different groups of symptoms. METH...

Somatization, anxiety, depression and personality disorders are common features of many patients with chronic headaches. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a brief therapy method developed specifically to treat patients with this cluster of somatic problems, symptoms and maladaptive behaviours through focusing on how the patient handles emotional experiences. It also contains...