The relationship between medical and psychiatric symptoms.

Matarazzo, Ruth G.; Matarazzo, Joseph D.; Saslow, George

doi:10.1037/h0043310

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“…There is little reason, Wolff argues, to expect that a distinct class of events exists in which integrational components are significant and another in which they are not, or, in other words, to postulate a distinct class of "psychosomatic disorders." Wolff s empirical observations and those of others [2] support Wolffs expectation that under conditions of stress a broad variety of somatic symptoms will be found to be affected.…”

Section: The ' Precipitantfaggravant Proposition"supporting

confidence: 62%

The Current State of the Concept of a Psychosomatic Disorder

Weiss

1974

Int J Psychiatry Med

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In general usage, the concept "psychosomatic disorder" is taken to refer to a categary of somatic illness that has certain proposed characteristics. The viability of this category is examined by evaluating the supportability of its proposed characteristics. The conclusion is reached that the category is a very tenuous one at best. It is suggested, however, that it is possible and useful to distinguish between the core concept "psychosomatic," which represents an approach to explanation, and the elaborated concept "psychosomatic disorder," which is a nosological concept. Finally, two systems are described that attempt to systematize the relationship between psychological and somatic variables in the context of somatic illness.

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Section: The ' Precipitantfaggravant Proposition"supporting

confidence: 62%

The Current State of the Concept of a Psychosomatic Disorder

Weiss

1974

Int J Psychiatry Med

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“…In the same study it was found that men were significantly more likely to complain of ulcers and asthma, 1-2 although in a recent West German survey there were no symptoms for which a male excess was noted (Beckmann, 1979). The complexity of the relationship between physical symptoms and psychological well-being is further demonstrated by the finding that people who have a greater number of somatic illnesses (regardless of their nature and aetiology) also have a greater number of psychiatric symptoms (Hinkle & Wolff, 1957), while those with a higher number of psychiatric complaints also show raised levels of medical ones (Matarrazzo et al 1961).…”

Section: Introduction (A) Sex Differences In Morbiditymentioning

confidence: 98%

Sex differences in psychological well-being

Briscoe¹

1982

Psychol. Med. Monogr. Suppl.

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SYNOPSIS General practice prevalence figures indicate that there are between two and three women suffering from minor psychiatric illness for every man thus diagnosed. This study aims to explore possible reasons for this excess. The focus is on examining sex differences in the expression of feelings as well as symptoms, primarily in a sample of married couples selected from general practice (and characterized by a high proportion of individuals with manifest psychological difficulties) but also in a random population sample (which includes single as well as married people).The measures used include assessments of health together with indices of emotional responsiveness such as degree of satisfaction with various life domains, avowed happiness and the Affect Balance Scale, which have been developed by research workers whose interests lie mainly beyond the clinical sphere in monitoring the ' quality of life' experienced by the general population through the use of 'subjective social indicators'. These social survey techniques are here used with a more clinical orientation to give a broad focus to the question of sex differences in emotional responsiveness.The results indicate that women are, on the whole, more likely to express their feelings (both pleasant and unpleasant) than men. Men with manifest psychological problems are found to be comparatively rare and, unlike their female counterparts, "they show a drop in positive feelings of well-being rather than a rise in unpleasant feelings, as compared with the general population. Two specific groups to emerge with particularly low levels of psychological well-being are full-time housewives and older single men. It is concluded that there are underlying factors of a biological and/or social nature which predispose the sexes to show different degrees of affective response, upon which such additional influences as the frustrations of the housewife role are super-imposed.

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“…This applied both to medical and to psychiatric patients. 30 It is noteworthy that, as the findings in Table 1 indicate, high total scores appear to depend more upon the presence of emotional disturbance than on the presence of disorders not associated with emotional disturbance. This specific significance of the total score has received support from a comparison of a small group of veterans suffering from chronic illnesses with a group of veterans without chronic illnesses, matched for their degree of psychiatric disorder and for age; no significant difference was found between the total scores of the two groups.…”

Section: Emotional Healthmentioning

confidence: 88%