Personality dimensions and defense styles that are related with relapse during 12 month follow-up in male alcohol dependents

2013 ◽  
pp. 248-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuneyt Evren ◽  
Sera Yigiter ◽  
Muge Bozkurt ◽  
Dilara Cagil ◽  
Serap Ozcetinkaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Defense Styles

scholarly journals The role of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in improving attachment patterns, defense styles, and alexithymia in patients with depressive/anxiety disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Mojgan Khademi ◽  
Mahmoud Hajiahmadi ◽  
Mahbobeh Faramarzi
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Self Psychology ◽  
Post Treatment ◽  
Defense Styles ◽  
The Mean

Abstract Introduction Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) emphasizes the centrality of intrapsychic and unconscious conflicts and their relation to development. Although there is evidence supporting the efficacy of LTPP in mental disorders, little research has been published on the efficacy of LTPP for depressive and anxiety disorders. Objective To examine whether patients with anxiety and depressive disorders demonstrate improvement in their attachment styles, defense styles, psychiatric symptoms, anxiety/depressive symptoms, and alexithymia with LTPP. Methods In this retrospective, descriptive study, the psychological outcomes of patients who were treated at the psychoanalytic clinic of Babol University of Medical Sciences were assessed. Fourteen patients diagnosed with depressive or anxiety disorder participated in the study of LTPP using the self-psychology approach. The Beck Depression Inventory II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Adult Attachment Scale, 40-item Defense Style Questionnaire, and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale were administered at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and 6-month follow-up. Generalized estimating equations were used to analyze changes in psychological outcomes after each of the three assessments. Results The mean scores of depression and anxiety and secure attachment improved significantly after LTPP with self-psychology approach from baseline to post-treatment and follow-up. Also, the mean scores of neurotic and immature defenses, difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings, externally oriented thinking, and total alexithymia scores decreased significantly from baseline to post-treatment and follow-up. Conclusion Symptoms of anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, insecure attachment styles, alexithymia, and neurotic/immature defense styles improved after the LTPP with self-psychology approach. Moreover, the improvements persisted at the 6-month follow-up.

Depression symptoms in burns: The influence of personality dimensions in a follow-up study

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. S54
Author(s):  
A. Giannoni-Pastor ◽  
M. Gomà-i-Freixanet ◽  
S. Valero ◽  
S.G. Fidel ◽  
R. Tasque-Cebrian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Follow Up Study

Impact of orthognathic surgery on normal and abnormal personality dimensions: A 2-year follow-up study of 61 patients

1990 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Flanary ◽  
George M. Barnwell ◽  
Joseph E. VanSickels ◽  
John H. Littlefield ◽  
Annie L. Rugh
Keyword(s):  
Orthognathic Surgery ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Follow Up Study

The psychological defense styles from adolescence to adulthood: A follow-up study

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 331s
Author(s):  
A. Tuulio-Henriksson ◽  
T. Aalto-Setälä ◽  
T. Pitkänen ◽  
K. Poikolainen ◽  
J. Lönnqvist
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Defense ◽  
Defense Styles ◽  
Follow Up Study

scholarly journals “The Heidelberg Five” Personality Dimensions: Genome-wide Associations, Polygenic Risk for Neuroticism, and Psychopathology 20 Years after Assessment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urs Heilbronner ◽  
Sergi Papiol ◽  
Monika Budde ◽  
Till F. M. Andlauer ◽  
Jana Strohmaier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrin Subunit ◽  
Genome Wide Association Studies ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Polygenic Risk ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Related Personality

ABSTRACTThe HeiDE study (‘‘Heidelberger Langzeitstudie zu Risikofaktoren und Diagnose chronischer Erkrankungen’’) is a longitudinal population-based study that started in the 1990s and, at baseline, assessed an array of health-related personality questionnaires in 5 133 individuals. Five latent personality dimensions (The Heidelberg Five) were identified and interpreted as Emotional Lability (ELAB), Lack of Behavioral Control (LBCN), Type A Behavior (TYAB), Locus of Control over Disease (LOCC), and Psychoticism (PSYC). A subset of participants (n=3 268; after quality control) were genotyped on whole-genome arrays at follow-up. To further characterize The Heidelberg Five, we analyzed genomic underpinnings, their relations to the genetic basis of the Big Five trait Neuroticism, and longitudinal associations with lifetime psychiatric symptoms. SNP-based heritability was significant for ELAB (34%) and LBCN (29%). Five separate genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using factor scores on personality dimensions as phenotypes were conducted, only the phenotype PSYC yielded a genome-wide significant finding (p<5×10−8, top SNP rs138223660). Gene-based analyses identified significant findings for ELAB (Integrin Subunit Beta 5), TYAB (Coiled-coil Domain Containing 83), and PSYC (Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1 Group H Member 4). Polygenic risk scores for Neuroticism, phenotypically related to ELAB, were associated with ELAB, but not with the remaining Heidelberg Five. Longitudinally, all personality dimensions were related to depressive symptoms at follow-up, with ELAB, LBCN, and PSYC also associated with lifetime anxiety symptoms. These results highlight the clinical importance of health-related personality traits, and identify LBCN as a heritable “executive function” personality trait.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

Brief summary of Kleť photographic search programme for minor planets

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
J. Tichá ◽  
M. Tichý ◽  
Z. Moravec
Keyword(s):  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Main Belt

AbstractA long-term photographic search programme for minor planets was begun at the Kleť Observatory at the end of seventies using a 0.63-m Maksutov telescope, but with insufficient respect for long-arc follow-up astrometry. More than two thousand provisional designations were given to new Kleť discoveries. Since 1993 targeted follow-up astrometry of Kleť candidates has been performed with a 0.57-m reflector equipped with a CCD camera, and reliable orbits for many previous Kleť discoveries have been determined. The photographic programme results in more than 350 numbered minor planets credited to Kleť, one of the world's most prolific discovery sites. Nearly 50 per cent of them were numbered as a consequence of CCD follow-up observations since 1994.This brief summary describes the results of this Kleť photographic minor planet survey between 1977 and 1996. The majority of the Kleť photographic discoveries are main belt asteroids, but two Amor type asteroids and one Trojan have been found.

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