Prospective Epidemiological Recognition of the Candidate for Ischemic Heart Disease

Effects of brief psychotherapy during the hospitalization period on the recovery process in heart attacks.

“…These conclusions also tie in with the clinical impressions on how some of the patients changed in their utilization of the treatment. Thus, some patients with clearly identifiable aspects of the Sissyphus syndrome (Wolf, 1969) or ingredients of the Pattern A type of personality (Roseman, 1967;Roseman, Friedman, Strauss, Wurm, Kositchek, Hahn, & Werthessen, 1964) were able to take another look at themselves and learned how self-improved pressures and obligations placed strains on their lives. In these and other patients, the counselling allowed patients to open up new information about themselves so that they looked at hitherto hidden areas of their functioning that had been closed to them primarily because of a constricted view of their basic self-concept.…”

Psychodynamic Aspects in Young Patients Suffering from Peripheral Vascular Occlusions

“…The importance of psychological factors in the genesis of arteriosclerotic vascular diseases has been em phasized by retrospective studies in cardiac infarction [3][4][5][6] and stroke [7], by prospective and predictive studies in coronary patients [8][9][10] and investigations about the 'risk factors ' [11] …”