Published in Current Review of Pain
Personality characteristics and disorders have long been noted in the chronic pain population. Clinicians and researchers alike will attest to the high rates of personality difficulties encountered in these individuals. Historically, it has been found that certain personality styles such as hypochondriasis and hysteria are common in chronic pain su...
Published in Current Review of Pain
This article reviews the objectives of psychological evaluations, as well as the standard pain center evaluation protocol that uses a pain questionnaire, a structured clinical interview, and pain assessment measures that include pain intensity rating scales and the McGill Pain Questionnaire. The most frequently used measures of psychological status...
Published in Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
Clinical aspects of the “night eating syndrome” (NES) are described. Recent studies, also referred to in the present report, have revealed certain triggering factors of this syndrome, but do not reveal the nature of the relationship between awakening and compulsory need for food. According to the psychodynamic interpretation, these subjects eat at ...
Published in Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Medical Resonance Therapy Music (MRT-Music) as a psycho-physiological method for the treatment of epilepsy in severe epileptic patients, whose attacks persevered despite comprehensive drug treatments. Under investigation were frequency and severity of epileptic attacks, the subjective st...
Published in Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (NES) can be classified into five categories. This review focuses on NES associated with emotional conflict, by far the most common and important group. Etiology is speculative, but the background histories of these patients are often similar. The presence of a trauma history, depression, post-traumatic stress symp...
Published in Current Psychology
This research describes an exploratory factor analysis for the purposes of factorial validation for both the English and Japanese versions of the Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status (OMEIS)—Ideological version (Adams, Bennion, & Huh, 1989). The Japanese OMEIS is a direct translation of the English OMEIS (Ohnishi, 1998). The study reports the f...
Published in Current Infectious Disease Reports
Prostatitis has long been a poorly understood and poorly characterized entity. Characterized in 1980 as a "wastebasket of clinical ignorance," it has only recently begun to be studied effectively. Prostatitis represents over 2 million medical office visits per year in the United States, and is the diagnosis given to 8% of urology clinic patients. I...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
The paper discusses some methodological problems in (psychological) research on traffic accident predictors and reviews a convenience sample of the literature. Three methodological aspects are identified as being important: reliability of accident predictors, time period for accidents used as dependent variable, and culpability for accidents. Paper...
Published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Although there is good evidence that emotions are associated with chronic airways obstruction, evidence for the influence of psychological factors on the level and decline of pulmonary function is sparse. Optimism has been linked to enhanced well-being, whereas pessimism has been identified as a risk factor for poor physical health. This investigat...
Published in American Journal of Criminal Justice
The utility of personality inventories for predicting successful police officer performance is an important issue in the law enforcement employment selection process. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the incremental validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), the Inwald Personality Inventory (IPI), and the R...
