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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Psychosomatic"”.
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A P-Technique Study of Personality Factors in the Psychosomatic Areas
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
<p>This project examines the psychosomatic heroine, a character type I observe emerging throughout the long eighteenth-century who responds to social, domestic, and personal pressures and stressors with mental and emotional preoccupations that lead to physiological symptoms. I demonstrate through …
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Is it Psychosomatic? - An Inquiry into the Nature and Role of Medical Concepts
… of one example of a particular medical concept “psychosomatic” in medical theory and practice. The approach taken in this essay reflects the writings of Lev Vygotsky, who argued that scientific concepts are tools for scientific thinking. Since all conceptual tools have their own developmental …
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Hypnotically Induced Conflict in Relation to Subception, Repression, Antisocial Behavior and Psychosomatic Reactions
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Theatre as transformative practice : a heuristic exploration of the psychosomatic dynamics of self-expressive theatre practices
An exploration into the psychosomatic dynamics of theatre-based practices was undertaken using heuristic methodology (Moustakas, 1990). Twenty-two practitioners, some working independently, others working collaboratively, were interviewed about their approaches, focusing on their experiences of …
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Lost to Desire. Stories That Refuse to be Dreamt. The Investigative Burden of the Psychosomatic School of Paris
As psychoanalysis spread in post WWII France, it came across a novel form of resistance: patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life. Analysts from the Paris Society took the innovative step to turn their attention to what seemed without meaning. The term they gave to the …
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Psychosomatic aspects on diabetes and chronic pain Alexithymia, depression and salivary cortisol The Affect School and Script Analysis Therapy
This thesis explores links between psyche and soma in diabetes and in chronic benign pain (CBP). Interventions with Affect School and Script Analysis (ASSA) compared to Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) are tried. In a feasibility and treatment efficacy study we offered ASSA to 59 patients with …
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The type A behaviour pattern and its associated personality variables in CHD, ulcer, asthma, non-psychosomatic patients and healthy controls
… the type A concept in its relation to other psychosomatic pathology. In the present study, five groups are compared in relation to type A behaviour: CHD, ulcer, asthma, nonpsychosomatic patients and healthy controls. Firstly, an attempt is made to establish whether a sample of white, male, …
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Psychosomatika u vertebrogenních onemocnění
Title: Psychosomatic in vertebrogenic disease Objectives: The aim of this master thesis is to determine common features of vertebrogenic disease in conection with psychosomatics using literary research, and to describe the treatement options for this disease used in literal sources. The first …
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The social body of the police
… nutrition, fitness, substance use, burnout, psychosomatic symptoms and suicide). The major findings are: police work is regarded as mostly stressful; and the most significant stressors are problems with the public, courts, administration and shiftwork. Officers who evaluate their work as more …
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A psychometric investigation of the personality traits of a group of migraine sufferers
… psychometric method. The migraine, normal and psychosomatic control groups were tested on the Hysteroid-Obsessoid Questionnaire, the California Psychological Inventory and the Sixteen Personality Factor Test. The results indicate that the three groups do not differ significantly in terms of …
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Vulvodynia and autoethnography
… way through the thesis are two chapter series: ‘Psychosomatic’ and ‘Nature of the Beast’. The Psychosomatic series explores the background to a common labelling of chronic genital pain in women (and men) as “psychosomatic” or “in the head”. The series examines the influence of the history of …
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Workplace-related anxieties and workplace phobia : a concept of domain-specific mental disorders
… Method: 230 patients from an inpatient psychosomatic rehabilitation center were interviewed with the (semi-)structured Mini-Work-Anxiety-Interview and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, concerning workplace-related anxieties and conventional mental disorders. …
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The rational child : theories and evidence in prediction, exploration, and explanation
… their intuitive theories of biological kinds, psychosomatic illness, balance, and physical systems. Chapter One introduces the problem. Chapter Two explores how evidence and children's strong beliefs about biological events and psychosomatic illness influence their forced-choice explanations in …
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The Seeker Loves the Burden
… often experimenting with words to heighten the psychosomatic experience of their sonic qualities.
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The Seeker Loves the Burden
… often experimenting with words to heighten the psychosomatic experience of their sonic qualities.
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Low back pain and risk factors for low back pain in car drivers
… stature, previous physical demands, increased psychosomatic distress, daily and cumulative driving in taxi drivers; age, lifting, bending, increase psychosomatic distress in police drivers; stature, bending, increased psychosomatic distress in police non-drivers). Measurements of whole-body …
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