News tagged with psychotherapy and psychosomatics


Can Family Therapy Help The Depressed Patient?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics suggests that single-family and multi-family therapy may benefit hospitalized patients with major depression, and may help the partners of the patients ...





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Psychotherapy may improve course of medical disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Somatic symptom disorders are common, disabling and costly. This meta-analysis indicates how short-term dynamic psychotherapy may be effective on physical symptoms, psychiatric symptoms and social adjustment, even in the ...


How to help psychologically survivors of wars: A study on Rwanda orphans

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A group of German investigators performed a controlled study on psychological help for Rwanda orphans of war.


Is Your Cognitive And Physical Functioning Ok? A New Instrument To Check It

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A group of Italian and American investigators has published a new instrument for assessing cognitive and physical functioning (the Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire, CPFQ), in ...


What Is The Best Strategy For Overcoming Constant Worries?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A group of German investigators has published a randomized controlled trial on how to overcome constant worries in the current issue of Psyhotherapy and Psychosomatics.


Treatment of personality disorders by psychotherapy: A French multicenter study

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created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A French multicenter study headed by Jean Cottraux (Lyon) has investigated the role of psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder.


Does Treatment Affect Sickness Absence In Depressed Employees?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Favourable short-term outcomes for psychotherapy interventions targeted on depressive patients have been shown, but few studies have examined long-term outcomes in working populations. A group of Finnish investigators used ...


Working environment is 1 cause of rheumatoid arthritis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

It has long been known that environmental factors play a part in the development of rheumatoid arthritis; smoking and drinking alcohol, along with heredity, are particularly instrumental in increasing the risk of the disease. ...


Organized phone therapy for depression found cost-effective

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When people get brief, structured, phone-based cognitive behavioral psychotherapy soon after starting on antidepressant medication, significant benefits may persist two years after their first session, with only modest rises ...


Measuring the road to mental health

Measuring the road to mental health

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created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takuya Minami, assistant professor of counseling and applied psychology at Northeastern, is doing something that might have made even Dr. Freud blanch. Minami is trying to quantify how well ...


Longer-duration psychotherapy appears more beneficial for treatment of complex mental disorders

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Psychodynamic psychotherapy lasting for at least a year is effective and superior to shorter-term therapy for patients with complex mental disorders such as personality and chronic mental disorders, according to a meta-analysis ...



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