{"title":"Reply to Kisielewska and Mirucka: The Crucial Aspect of Ownership Illusions Is Their Strength, Not the Method to Induce Them.","authors":"Simone C Behrens,Katrin E Giel,Stephan Zipfel","doi":"10.1159/000541412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000541412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":"193 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142439378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of the appropriate use of terms related to body ownership in research using avatars.","authors":"Monika Kisielewska,Beata Mirucka","doi":"10.1159/000541312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000541312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142439377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovative Strategies in Evaluation and Treatment of Burnout in Medical Workers.","authors":"Jenny Guidi,Giovanni A Fava","doi":"10.1159/000541309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000541309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":"43 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheila Frankfurt O'Brien,Isabelle Baptista,Philip R Szeszko
{"title":"Enhancing Conceptual Clarity regarding the Construct of Moral Injury.","authors":"Sheila Frankfurt O'Brien,Isabelle Baptista,Philip R Szeszko","doi":"10.1159/000540030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000540030","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUNDThe construct of \"moral injury\" is used widely in the research literature and media to broadly describe the impact of events involving perceived violations of one's sense of right and wrong (herein referred to as \"potentially morally injurious events\" [PMIEs]).SUMMARYIn this theoretical review, we provided a brief overview of the \"moral injury\" construct and its limitations including the lack of consensus-drawn boundaries and operational definitions to guide hypothesis-driven research. We discussed whether this construct can be reliably distinguished from established psychiatric diagnoses and psychological constructs and the inherent challenges in separating or classifying the impact of high-magnitude stressful life events that likely form the majority of PMIEs. Assessments that purportedly measure \"moral injury\" are reviewed and limitations are discussed such as shared measurement variance with established psychological instruments.KEY MESSAGESWe identified conceptual strategies for investigating behavioral and neurobiological features of PMIEs that could be used to inform the field of traumatic stress. We concluded that the construct of \"moral injury\" may provide an interpretive framework for positing why someone may be beset by guilt, shame, and/or rage whereas existing psychiatric diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression provide comprehensive descriptions regarding what someone might experience following extremely stressful events. We proposed directions to better clarify the boundaries of \"moral injury\" versus established psychiatric categories that could be used to enhance the conceptualization and assessment of this construct.","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":"122 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childhood Trauma and the Immune System: A Complex Interaction That Can Lead to Biopsychosocial Pathogenesis.","authors":"Laiana A Quagliato,Antonio E Nardi","doi":"10.1159/000541094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000541094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rise in Persistent Somatic Syndromes: A Relationship with Systemic Changes in Healthcare?","authors":"Tahir Jokinen","doi":"10.1159/000541043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000541043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142174462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andre F Carvalho, Chih-Wei Hsu, Eduard Vieta, Marco Solmi, Wolfgang Marx, Michael Berk, Chih-Sung Liang, Ping-Tao Tseng, Liang-Jen Wang
{"title":"Mortality and Lithium-Protective Effects after First-Episode Mania Diagnosis in Bipolar Disorder: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan.","authors":"Andre F Carvalho, Chih-Wei Hsu, Eduard Vieta, Marco Solmi, Wolfgang Marx, Michael Berk, Chih-Sung Liang, Ping-Tao Tseng, Liang-Jen Wang","doi":"10.1159/000535777","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000535777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This study aimed to estimate all-cause mortality in patients after a first-episode mania (FEM) and examine whether six guideline-recommended medications can reduce mortality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The cohort included population-based FEM samples and matched controls from Taiwan, spanning 2007 to 2018. The primary outcomes assessed were all-cause/suicide-related mortality, while the secondary outcome focused on mortality associated with pharmacological treatments. We compared mortality in post-FEM patients and age-/sex-matched controls without any diagnosed bipolar disorders and patients with and without psychopharmacological treatment using Cox regression analysis, respectively. Statistics were presented with time-to-event adjusted hazard ratios (AHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 54,092 post-FEM patients and 270,460 controls, totaling 2,467,417 person-years of follow-up. Post-FEM patients had higher risks of all-cause mortality (AHR 2.38, 95% CI: 2.31-2.45) and suicide death (10.80, 5.88-19.84) than controls. Lithium (0.62, 0.55-0.70), divalproex (0.89, 0.83-0.95), and aripiprazole (0.81, 0.66-1.00) were associated with reduced all-cause mortality compared to non-users. There were no significant all-cause mortality differences for quetiapine (0.95, 0.89-1.01), risperidone (0.92, 0.82-1.02), and paliperidone (1.24, 0.88-1.76) users. When accounting for drug action onset times in sensitivity analyses, only lithium significantly reduced all-cause mortality (AHR range 0.65-0.72). There were 35 and 16 suicide deaths in post-FEM patients and controls, respectively. No drug had a significant effect on suicide deaths (lithium: 6; divalproex: 7; aripiprazole: 0; quetiapine: 10; risperidone: 4; paliperidone: 1).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Post-FEM patients had a higher risk of all-cause/suicide-related mortality, and lithium treatment might reduce all-cause mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":" ","pages":"36-45"},"PeriodicalIF":22.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10880805/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139404172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovanni A Fava, Nicoletta Sonino, David C Aron, Richard Balon, Carmen Berrocal Montiel, Jianxin Cao, John Concato, Ajandek Eory, Ralph I Horwitz, Chiara Rafanelli, Ulrich Schnyder, Hongxing Wang, Thomas N Wise, Jesse H Wright, Stephan Zipfel, Chiara Patierno
{"title":"Clinical Interviewing: An Essential but Neglected Method of Medicine.","authors":"Giovanni A Fava, Nicoletta Sonino, David C Aron, Richard Balon, Carmen Berrocal Montiel, Jianxin Cao, John Concato, Ajandek Eory, Ralph I Horwitz, Chiara Rafanelli, Ulrich Schnyder, Hongxing Wang, Thomas N Wise, Jesse H Wright, Stephan Zipfel, Chiara Patierno","doi":"10.1159/000536490","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000536490","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical interviewing is the basic method to understand how a person feels and what are the presenting complaints, obtain medical history, evaluate personal attitudes and behavior related to health and disease, give the patient information about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and establish a bond between patient and physician that is crucial for shared decision making and self-management. However, the value of this basic skill is threatened by time pressures and emphasis on technology. Current health care trends privilege expensive tests and procedures and tag the time devoted to interaction with the patient as lacking cost-effectiveness. Instead, the time spent to inquire about problems and life setting may actually help to avoid further testing, procedures, and referrals. Moreover, the dialogue between patient and physician is an essential instrument to increase patient's motivation to engage in healthy behavior. The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of clinical interviewing and its optimal use in relation to style, flow and hypothesis testing, clinical domains, modifications according to settings and goals, and teaching. This review points to the primacy of interviewing in the clinical process. The quality of interviewing determines the quality of data that are collected and, eventually, of assessment and treatment. Thus, interviewing deserves more attention in educational training and more space in clinical encounters than it is currently receiving.</p>","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":" ","pages":"94-99"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139932630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiammetta Cosci, Virginie-Anne Chouinard, Guy Chouinard
{"title":"Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor and Serotonin-Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitor Withdrawal Changes DSM Presentation of Mental Disorders: Results from the Diagnostic Clinical Interview for Drug Withdrawal.","authors":"Fiammetta Cosci, Virginie-Anne Chouinard, Guy Chouinard","doi":"10.1159/000540031","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000540031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) may cause withdrawal at dose decrease, discontinuation, or switch. Current diagnostic methods (e.g., DSM) do not take such phenomenon into account. Using a new nosographic classification of withdrawal syndromes due to SSRI/SNRI decrease or discontinuation [by Psychother Psychosom. 2015;84(2):63-71], we explored whether DSM is adequate to identify DSM disorders when withdrawal occurs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Seventy-five self-referred patients with a diagnosis of withdrawal syndrome due to discontinuation of SSRI/SNRI, diagnosed via the Diagnostic Clinical Interview for Drug Withdrawal 1 - New Symptoms of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (DID-W1), and at least one DSM-5 diagnosis were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 58 cases (77.3%), the DSM-5 diagnosis of current mental disorder was not confirmed when the DID-W1 diagnosis of current withdrawal syndrome was established. In 13 cases (17.3%), the DSM-5 diagnosis of past mental disorder was not confirmed when criteria for DID-W1 diagnosis of lifetime withdrawal syndrome were met. In 3 patients (4%), the DSM-5 diagnoses of current and past mental disorders were not confirmed when the DID-W1 diagnoses of current and lifetime withdrawal syndromes were taken into account. The DSM-5 diagnoses most frequently mis-formulated were current panic disorder (50.7%, n = 38) and past major depressive episode (18.7%, n = 14).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>DSM needs to be complemented by clinimetric tools, such as the DID-W1, to detect withdrawal syndromes induced by SSRI/SNRI discontinuation, decrease, or switch, following long-term use.</p>","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":" ","pages":"340-345"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jan Philipp Klein, Alexander Rozental, Svenja Sürig, Steffen Moritz
{"title":"Adverse Events of Psychological Interventions: Definitions, Assessment, Current State of the Research and Implications for Research and Clinical Practice.","authors":"Jan Philipp Klein, Alexander Rozental, Svenja Sürig, Steffen Moritz","doi":"10.1159/000540212","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000540212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The effectiveness of psychological interventions is undisputed. But while in other fields of health care the safety of interventions is studied alongside effectiveness, adverse events (AEs) have only recently been assessed in clinical studies of psychological interventions. This critical review summarizes the definition, assessment and current research status of AEs of psychological interventions.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>AEs are defined as any untoward event or unfavorable change that occurs in the course of a psychological intervention. AEs that are caused by the intervention can be classified into side effects of correctly applied treatment, malpractice (i.e., incorrectly applied treatment) and unethical conduct (e.g., sexual abuse). Ideally, they are assessed by independent raters or alternatively by self-report questionnaires that should also cover serious adverse events (SAEs, e.g., suicide attempts or self-injurious behaviors). About 1 to 2 in 3 patients report at least 1 AE and results of meta-analyses suggest that treatments might differ in frequency and/or severity of AE and in treatment acceptability (measured as dropout rates).</p><p><strong>Key messages: </strong>Measures of AEs and SAEs as well as more nuanced descriptions of dropout should be included in all clinical studies of psychological interventions. If this happens, we might learn that psychological interventions differ with respect to AEs, SAEs and acceptability. As many psychological interventions are about equally effective, they might one day be chosen based on differences in their safety profile rather than their differential effectiveness. Ideally, reducing AEs might also lead to more effective interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20744,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics","volume":" ","pages":"308-315"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141793187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}