The present study tests the mediating role of hypochondriasis to explain the relation between anxiety sensitivity and panic symptomatology. Fifty-seven outpatients with clinically significant levels of panic symptomatology were selected to participate in the study. Measures of anxiety sensitivity, hypochondriasis, and panic symptomatology were obtained from standardized, self-administered quest...

even by the sternest stoic, or the most subtle metaphysician, has attained universal assent, rather as an article of sensation than of science ; as being the compulsion of experience, more than the result of enquiry. Some men may call in question the liberty of the human will ; and others may weave a fine spun chain of arguments against the existence of matter and the reality of an external wor...

Intervention: Six 90 minute weekly sessions of individual cognitive behavioural therapy, specifically addressing hypochondriasis and including educational information, or usual care. To coordinate medical management with cognitive behavioural therapy, letters were sent to the participants’ practioners, advising them to be conservative in diagnosis and treatment, schedule regular appointments, m...

OBJECTIVES To gain a clearer conceptual understanding of medical students' disease and its impact on students, by separating the process of thinking that one may have a particular illness under study from the emotional distress that may accompany these thoughts. METHOD In a questionnaire survey, the responses of 92 first-year and 85 third-year medical students were compared with those of 82 l...

This study was conducted to find out the psychiatric symptomatology in the patients and their families attending a primary health care facility. The most frequent symptoms found were of depression (13.2%), followed by hypochondriacal symptoms (8.2%), anxiety symptoms (6.1%) and psychotic symptoms. A large proportion (21.5%) of children had psychiatric symptoms. The common symptoms include enure...

All 12 cases who received a diagnosis of depersonalisation neurosis over a 6½ year period were studied. The illness was found to occur in young males. It usually took a deteroriating course after starting insidiously. Anxiety, depression and derealisation were common concomitants. Other associated symptoms included deaffectualisation, disturbed sleep and appetite, obsessive ruminations and hypo...