Emotion and Blood-Pressure By

Innes, George; Millar, W. M.; Valentine, Max

doi:10.1192/bjp.105.440.840

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“…They (5) found in their patient during psychotherapy sessions in the symptom sequences more pauses, stuttering and numerous brief remarks by patient and therapist, and the categories 'lack of control', 'feeling blocked by the therapist' and 'helplessness' and 'hopelessness' were more fre quently present. The observations of Innes et al (4) of a correlation between increased BP and increased verbal output are consistent with our findings.…”

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A Context Study of Psychological Conditions Prior to Shifts in Blood Pressure

Adler¹,

Herrmann²,

Schafer³

et al. 1976

Psychother Psychosom

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Shifts in intra-arterially registered blood pressure during an initial interview were studied in 4 young patients with essential hypertension by means of the Symptom Context Method. The relationships found between both formal variables and thematic categories of speech anteceding blood pressure shifts were in terms of patient and interviewer. All patients showed an increased rate of speech before blood pressure elevations, and in 3 of them the thematic content of ‘personal failing, personal failure’, ‘loss of status of being useful and needed’, and ‘failure of others to meet the standards of the patient’ was more often present before pressure elevations than decreases.

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A Context Study of Psychological Conditions Prior to Shifts in Blood Pressure

Adler¹,

Herrmann²,

Schafer³

et al. 1976

Psychother Psychosom

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“…Yet, quite a number of researchers have tested the hypothesis of de layed blood pressure recovery after stress in hypertensives. Whereas Brod et al [15], Innes et al [16], Svensson and Theorell [17], Schulte and Neus [18], Fredrikson and Engel [ 19] could observe delayed recovery of hyper tensives in at least one blood pressure vari able, Lorimer et al [20], Fredrikson et al [11], Jern [10] and Anderson et al [21] found no group differences in blood pressure recovery at all. Delayed recovery of noradrenaline in normotensives (or faster recovery in hyper tensives), as suggested by our results, may be a chance result within the scope of multiple comparisons and does not seem worth inter preting unless after replication.…”

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Psychophysiological Responses of Borderline Hypertensives in Two Experimental Situations

Köhler

Scherbaum²,

Ritz

1995

Psychother Psychosom

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Given the contradictory reports concerning psychophysiological reactivity of hypertensives this issue was reexamined. In contrast to the large majority of studies, the hypertensive sample should not be made up of patients in medical care and the control group should be comparable in all relevant aspects other than blood pressure. Twelve male subjects with blood pressure values in the borderline range and 12 normotensive controls were recruited from a blood donation program. Experiments consisted of two parts with baseline, stress and follow-up. Stressors were a short distressing movie and mental arithmetic. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP), heart rate (HR), skin conductance level (SCL) and number of spontaneous electrodermal fluctuations (SF) were assessed in 2-min intervals, plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline once during baselines, stress 2 and follow-up 2. Hypertensives exhibited significantly higher SPB levels, and partially elevated values for DBP, HR and SCL. Response reactions to stressors, however, did not differ between groups. There was no evidence that psychophysiological adaptation during stress and recovery thereafter was impaired in hypertensives. Our results do not support the reactivity hypothesis of hypertension. Possible reasons for our failure to replicate findings from other studies are discussed.

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“…. overt displays of anxiety or anger during the interview were not clearly pressor in effect; and depressive themes (such as the discussion of bereavement), which might be expected to produce some lowering of values, were not in any way consistent in their effect" (60). They concluded that pressor responses occurred (a) with novel or "alerting" stimuli; (b) when the subject talked about herself, about her illness or about her husband; (c) when the subject's verbal output increased.…”

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Presidential Address—Engagement-Involvement: A Central Phenomenon in Psychophysiological Research

Singer

1974

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Emotion and Blood-Pressure By

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

A Context Study of Psychological Conditions Prior to Shifts in Blood Pressure

A Context Study of Psychological Conditions Prior to Shifts in Blood Pressure

Psychophysiological Responses of Borderline Hypertensives in Two Experimental Situations

Presidential Address—Engagement-Involvement: A Central Phenomenon in Psychophysiological Research

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