Efficacy of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Medically Unexplained Pain: A Pilot Three-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial Comparison with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 123-125

  Chavooshi, Behzad ^a   Mohammadkhani, Parvaneh ^a   Dolatshahee, Behrouz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARM PAIN; ARTHRALGIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; EMOTION; EMOTION REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE SHORT TERM DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; LETTER; LONGEVITY; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED PAIN; MINDFUL ATTENTION AWARENESS SCALE; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NECK PAIN; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; NUMERICAL PAIN RATING SCALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STRESS MANAGEMENT; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TENSION HEADACHE; ADOLESCENT; ANALGESIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEDITATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955615004     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000441698     Document Type: Letter

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