Using traditional relaxation techniques in healthcare

International Medical Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 191-198

  Somasundaram, Daya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Minor mental health disorders; Relaxation techniques; Somatization; Stress; Traditional methods

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; DEPRESSION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RELAXATION TRAINING; SOMATIZATION; SRI LANKA; WELLBEING;

EID: 0036739598     PISSN: 13412051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Alexander CN, Orme-Johnson D. (1988) Maharishi effect: improved quality of life and reduced conflict in the middle East. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32, 776-812.
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1994) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 4 ed. Washington: APA.
3. Benson H. (1975) The relaxation response. New York: Avon Books.
4. Benson H. (1996) Timeless healing. New South Wales: Hodder & Stoughton, Rydalmere.
5. Blackwell B, Bloomfield S, Gartside P, Robinson A, Hanenson I, Magenheim H, et al. (1976). Transcendental meditation in hypertension. Individual response patterns. Lancet, 1, 223-6.
6. Borland C, Landrith G. (1976) Improved quality of city life through transcedental meditation program: decreased crime rate. In D.W. Orme-Johnson and J.T. Farrow (Eds.), Scientific research on the transcendental meditation program: collected papers. (vol1, PP. 639-648). Rhenweiter, W. Germany: Maharishi European Research University Press.
7. Bracken PJ, Geiller JE, Summerfield D. (1995) Psychological responses to war and atrocity: the limitations of current concepts. Social Science and Medicine, 40, 1073-1082.
8. Bridges KW, Goldberg DP. (1987) Somatic presentation of DSM III psychiatric disorders in primary care. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 29, 563.
9. de Jong JTVM, Komproe IH, van Ommeren M, El Masri M, Araya M, Khaled N, van de Put W, Somasundaram D. Lifetime events and posttraumatic stress disorder in 4 postconflict settings. Journal of American Medical Association. 2001; 286: 555-562.
10. Dillbeck MC, Cavanaugh KL, Glenn T, Orme-Johnson DW, Mittlefeild V. (1987) Consciousness as a field: the transcendental meditator and TM-Sidhi program and changes in social indicators. The Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 8, 67-104.
11. Geevathasan MG. (1995) Follow-up of counselling at Shantiam. III MBBS Research Project, Dept. of Community Medicine, University of Jaffna.
12. Goldberg DP, Blackwell B. (1970) Psychiatric illness in general practice: a detailed study using a new method of case identification. British Medical Journal, 2, 439-443.
13. Jacobson E. (1938) Progressive Relaxation. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
14. Ketheswaranathan P, Koneswary K. (1995) Effects of relaxation technique on essential hypertension. III MBBS Research Project, Dept. of Community Medicine, University of Jaffna.
15. Kirmayer LJ. (1996) Confusion of the senses: implications of ethnocultural variations in somatoform and dissociative disorders for PTSD. In, Ethnocultural aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder (pp 131-163). Eds. AJ Marsella, MJ Friedman, ET Gerrity and RM Scurfield. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
16. Kleinman AM. (1980) Patients and healers in the context of culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
17. Knipschild P, Kleijnen J, ter Riet G. (1990) Belief in the efficacy of alternative medicine among general practitioners in the Netherlands. Social Science & Medicine, 31, 625-6.
18. Miller JJ, Fletcher K, Kabat-Zinn J. (1995) Three-year follow-up and clinical implications of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction intervention in the treatment of anxiety disorders. General Hospital Psychiatry, 17, 192-200.
19. Ministry of Planning. (1996). Demographic survey of Cambodia-1996. Cambodia: National Institute of Statistics.
20. Monro R, Nagarathna R, Nagendra HR. (1990). Yoga for common ailments. London: Simon and Schuster Inc.
21. Nagendra HR, Nagarathna R. (1984). Further studies on diabetes mellitus. Report No. VKYOCTAS/84/012. Bangalore: Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Therapy & Research Centre.
22. Nagendra HR, Nagarathna R. (1986). A new light for asthmatics. Bangalore: Vivekananda Kendra Yoctas.
23. Nagendra HR, Nagarathna R, Survinder, Pruthi PS. (1988). New perspectives in stress management. Kanniya Kumari: Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation.
24. Nikapota AD, Patrick V, Fernando LHS. (1981) Aspects of psychiatric morbidity in the out-patient population of a general hospital in Sri Lanka. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 23, 219-223.
25. Patel CH. (1973). Yoga and Biofeedback in the management of Hypertension. The Lancet, Nov, 1973, 1053-1055.
26. Puvaneanthiranathan K. (1994). Study on the effect of Yoga therapy in patients with diabetes mellitus attending to clinic of general hospital, Jaffna. III MBBS Research Project, Dept. of Community Medicine, University of Jaffna.
27. Samarasinghe D. (1991) Recognition and management of functional complaints. Ceylon Medical Journal, 36, 23-26.
28. Somasundaram DJ, Sovayokan S. (2001). Mental health in the Tamil Community, in English and Tamil. Jaffna: Shantiam/TPO.
29. Somasundaram DJ. (1997). Scarred mind. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
30. Somasundaram DJ, Kall K, Put Van de W, Eisenbruch E, Thomassen L. (1997). Community mental health in Cambodia. Ed. Joop de Jong, in English and Khmer. Cambodia: TPO.
31. Somasundaram DJ, (2001) War trauma and psychosocial problems: patient attendees in Jaffna, International Medical Journal, 8(3), 193-197.
32. Somasundaram DJ, Sivayokan S. (1994) War trauma in a civilian population. British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 524-527.
33. Somasundaram DJ. (1997). Treatment of massive trauma. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 3, 321-331.
34. Somasundaram DJ, Put W van de, Eisenbruch M. Jong Joop de. (1999). Starting mental health services in Cambodia. Social Science & Medicine, 48, 1029-1046.
35. Sreeharan N. (1984). Psychiatric illness and the general physician in developing countries. Tropical Doctor, 14, 55.
36. Sumathipala A, Hewege S, Havwella R, et al. (2000). Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy for repeated consultations for medically unexplained complaints: a feasibility study in Sri Lanka. Psychological Medicine, 30, 747-757.
37. Transcultural Psychosocial Organization. (1998). Community mental health programme-Cambodia: facts and thoughts on the first years. 1 February 1995-1 October 1997. Phnom Penh: TPO.
38. van Montfrans GA, Karemaker JM, Wieling W, et al. (1990). Relaxation therapy and continuous ambulatory blood pressure in mild hypertension: a controlled study. British Medical Journal, 300, 1368-72.
39. World Health Organization. (1948). The Constitution of the WHO. WHO, Geneva.
40. World Health Organization. (1984). World health assembly resolution (37.13) of 1984, Geneva: WHO.
41. World Health Organization. (1992). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders. Geneva: WHO.