{"title":"Recognition: A Key for Understanding a Necessary Role of the Psychotherapist for the Successful Outcome of Psychotherapy.","authors":"Milton Viederman","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2274249","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2274249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this paper is to focus on an aspect of psychodynamic psychotherapy that includes psychoanalysis to illustrate the important element in the psychotherapeutic relationship called recognition. This involves an emotional sharing with the patient of the importance of particular life experiences that he has had and as such this not only cements the relationship but becomes the substrate of change and an internalization of the therapist that persists after the end of treatment. This interaction parallels the experience with a responsive mother able to echo the infant's experience. The experience of recognition is illustrated with 10 case presentations that demonstrate the power of this factor in a variety of patients ranging from brief consultations to psychoanalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":" ","pages":"317-328"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138832624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergency Evacuations, Panic, and Social Psychology.","authors":"Benigno E Aguirre","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2289817","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2289817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 4","pages":"307-316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139040790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cecilia R Dichtel, June R Dichtel, William R Dichtel
{"title":"Experimental Measurement of the Diameter of a Human Hair via Two-Color Light Diffraction.","authors":"Cecilia R Dichtel, June R Dichtel, William R Dichtel","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2020.1768008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2020.1768008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The width of a human hair sourced from a female elementary school student was measured by light diffraction using red and blue laser pointers. The two laser sources both provided consistent estimates of the hair diameter of approximately 50 μm. The overall experiment and writing process provided a temporary respite from COVID-19 shelter-in-place requirements and deteriorating spring weather that precluded outdoor activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 3","pages":"267-270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00332747.2020.1768008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10332854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Qualitative Disaster Narratives of Highly Trauma-Exposed Survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing Nearly a Quarter Century Later.","authors":"Carol S North, Katy McDonald, Alina Surís","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2022.2114269","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2022.2114269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective</i>: To examine highly trauma-exposed survivors of the 1995 Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building bombing nearly a quarter century later, focusing on survivors' immediate personal experiences of it through open-ended narratives. <i>Methods</i>: An original sample of 182 bombing survivors, studied approximately 6 months post bombing, was randomly selected from a state registry of 1,092 bombing survivors, with 71% participation. Of the original 182 bombing survivors, 103 completed the longitudinal follow-up, conducted at a median of 23 years post bombing. Qualitative data for the follow-up study were collected using an expanded version of the Disaster Supplement to the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Of the original sample, 39 were known to be deceased, 25 could not be located, and 15 declined participation. <i>Results</i>: In all, 12 themes were identified, but just 3 (Locations, Bombing experience, and Initial actions) are detailed here. All survivors were in heavily damaged buildings (about one-half in the Murrah Federal building) or directly outside, and the majority (84%) were injured. They described intense and gruesome experiences of the bombing, difficult efforts to escape to safety and help other survivors, and continuing postbombing experiences once outside. <i>Conclusions</i>: A striking finding was the intensity of the survivors' memories almost a quarter century after the bombing. Their sensory recollections remained vivid, generally as bright and intense as in earlier reporting periods. It may be that the salience of this extreme event stabilized memories of it yielding such vivid descriptions nearly a quarter century later.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 2","pages":"98-111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9958278/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9620052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lorenzo Pelizza, Emanuela Leuci, Emanuela Quattrone, Giuseppina Paulillo, Silvia Azzali, Simona Pupo, Pietro Pellegrini
{"title":"Depressed Mood in First Episode Schizophrenia: Findings From a 1-Year Follow-Up in an Italian Real-World Care Setting.","authors":"Lorenzo Pelizza, Emanuela Leuci, Emanuela Quattrone, Giuseppina Paulillo, Silvia Azzali, Simona Pupo, Pietro Pellegrini","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2022.2120308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2022.2120308","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Introduction</i>: Depression in schizophrenia is associated with poor outcomes and suicide risk. However, it is overlooked in both research and clinical practice, especially in First Episode Schizophrenia (FES). <i>Methods</i>: In this letter to the editor, we reported relevant findings on relevant comorbid depressed mood in an Italian sample of FES patients during a 1-year follow-up period within an \"Early Intervention in Psychosis\" (EIP) program. The Positive And Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was completed by 159 participant. <i>Results</i>: At baseline, 53 (33.3%) participants showed a relevant depressed mood (as measured with a PANSS \"Depression\" G6 item subscore of ≥ 5). At entry, a relevant depressed mood was associated with a greater percentage of females and a higher PANSS \"Positive Symptoms\" score. Across the follow-up, FES individuals improved their depression severity levels. This reduction was significantly related to improvments in positive symptoms levels. <i>Conclusions</i>: Depression is relatively common in FES, already at the recruitment in EIP services. However, its severity decreases overtime within specialized EIP programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 2","pages":"164-166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9628851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster and Mental Health: The Critical Role of Human Behavior.","authors":"Joshua C Morganstein","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2284620","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2284620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 4","pages":"272-277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139040789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander J Gajewski, Helena Zhang, Samir Abu-Hamad, Whitney Pollio, Katy McDonald, David E Pollio, Carol S North
{"title":"Making Meaning of Surviving the Oklahoma City Bombing Seven Years Later.","authors":"Alexander J Gajewski, Helena Zhang, Samir Abu-Hamad, Whitney Pollio, Katy McDonald, David E Pollio, Carol S North","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2022.2120309","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2022.2120309","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective</i>: No previous studies examined how survivors made meaning (i.e. interpreted the personal significance) of a disaster experience after seven years. This qualitative study follows up on a previously published analysis of 182 directly-exposed survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing, assessed after six months had elapsed for bombing-related psychopathology and meaning-making processes. The current study examines how 113 survivors (62% follow-up rate) made meaning of their bombing experience after seven years. <i>Method</i>: Survivors answered questions about the effects of the bombing on their beliefs and perspectives. Their responses were hand recorded by interviewers and transcribed. Content was coded into themes, allowing codes of multiple themes. Excellent interrater reliability was obtained (Cohen's kappa≥.8). <i>Results</i>: The survivors were 50% (57/113) male, 93% (105/113) Caucasian, 34% (38/113) college educated, and 71% (80/113) married with a mean (SD) age of 42.5 (10.6) (range = 19-69) years at the time of the bombing. Eight themes emerged and indicated that survivors matured in personal goals and character, interpersonal relationships, and philosophical thought (e.g., reconsideration of human nature and religion). More than one third of the comments included negative remarks about personal harm, especially psychological effects. <i>Conclusions</i>: Nearly two thirds of the material was positive in tone and consistent between six months and seven years. Negative content was entirely new relative to six-month baseline interview responses, suggesting many survivors incorporate greater reflection on negative outcomes in meaning-making processes over time. After several years, clinicians could encourage survivors to integrate positive and negative consequences as meaning. Longer-term studies are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 1","pages":"42-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9992151/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9078579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Usha Barahmand, Naila Shamsina, Kefira Carvey, Angelica Mae Acheta, Oscar Sanchez
{"title":"The Associations Between Attitudes Toward Interpersonal Affective Touch, Negative Cognitions and Social Anxiety: A Pilot Study.","authors":"Usha Barahmand, Naila Shamsina, Kefira Carvey, Angelica Mae Acheta, Oscar Sanchez","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2022.2068300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2022.2068300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective</i>: Affectionate touch promotes psychological well-being likely through inducing cognitive and neurobiological changes, which implies the inverse association of affectionate touch to negative cognitive and psychosocial outcomes. Our aim was to explore relationships between attitudes toward interpersonal touch and social anxiety through fear of negative evaluation and self-critical rumination as mediating variables.<i>Method</i>: Data from 250 participants (69.6% females, n = 174) ranging in age from 18 to 65 years were collected through self-report inventories assessing attitudes toward physical touch from friends and family, nonromantic intimate person and unfamiliar person, fear of negative evaluation, self-critical rumination, and social anxiety. A moderated-mediation analysis was conducted. <i>Results</i>: No direct link was seen between attitudes toward friends and family touch experiences and social anxiety in both genders, but mediation through fear of negative evaluation was significant (<i>p</i> < .05). Attitudes toward nonromantic intimate touch were related to social anxiety only in females and only indirectly through self-critical rumination (<i>p</i> < .05). In both males and females, attitudes toward touch from unfamiliar persons were linked to social anxiety directly (<i>p</i> < .05) but indirect paths through fear of negative evaluation (<i>p</i> < .05) and self-critical rumination were seen only in females (<i>p</i> < .05). <i>Conclusions</i>: Findings indicate that attitudes toward interpersonal affectionate touch may be predictive of social anxiety and the negative cognitions associated with it, extending previous findings on social pain and attesting to the potential clinical utility of touch-based interventions for social anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 1","pages":"53-66"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10824423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kénora Chau, Gérome Gauchard, Slimane Belbraouet, Philippe Perrin, Nearkasen Chau
{"title":"Association of School Health Relationship Difficulties with Lack of Regular Physical Activity in Younger Adolescents: A Population Based Study.","authors":"Kénora Chau, Gérome Gauchard, Slimane Belbraouet, Philippe Perrin, Nearkasen Chau","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2222639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2023.2222639","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective:</i> Lack of regular physical activity (LPA) and the number of days/week with physical activity >60 minutes/day (Ndw) may be associated with school-health-relational difficulties (SHRDs) during the life-course. This study assessed their associations and the confounding role of socioeconomic features (nationality, family structure, parents' education/occupation/income) among younger adolescents. <i>Methods:</i> This cross-sectional population-based study included 1,559 middle-school adolescents from north-eastern France (10-18 years, 98% under 16 years, 778 boys and 781 girls). They completed over one-hour teaching period a questionnaire collecting last-12-month LPA and last-7-day Ndw (dependent variables), and risk factors including socioeconomic features, SHRDs (previous grade repetitions, last-12-month poor general health status/physical health/psychological health/social-relationships, depressive symptoms (and age at onset and duration from onset); cumulated number noted SHRDcn). Data were analyzed using logistic/linear regression models. <i>Results:</i> LPA was common (32.5%) and associated with all SHRDs (sex-age-adjusted odds ratio saOR reaching 1.99, <i>p </i>< .001) and depressive-symptoms duration (saOR 1.63 (<i>p </i>< .05) and 2.11 (<i>p </i>< .001) for 1-2 and ≥3 years, respectively, vs. no depressive symptoms). A dose-effect association was found between SHRDcn and LPA (24.0, 33.7, 45.6, and 53.5%; saOR 1.59, 2.58, and 3.43; for SHRDcn 1-2, 3-4, and ≥5 respectively, vs. SHRDcn = 0, <i>p </i>< .001). Ndw was similarly associated with all SHRDs and SHRDcn (sex-age-adjusted regression coefficient reaching -1.10 day/week, <i>p </i>< .001). These results were robust when controlling for socioeconomic features (18%<contribution<51%). <i>Conclusions:</i> Physical activity is associated with SHRDs, and socioeconomic features have an elevated confounding role. Healthcare providers can detect/reduce SHRDs and consequently improve physical activity among adolescents and prevent physical inactivity in adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"86 3","pages":"229-248"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10318201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Wang, Robert J Ursano, Robert K Gifford, Hieu Dinh, Alysse Weinberg, Gregory H Cohen, Laura Sampson, Sandro Galea, Carol S Fullerton
{"title":"Suicide Ideation and Social Support Trajectories in National Guard and Reserve Servicemembers.","authors":"Jing Wang, Robert J Ursano, Robert K Gifford, Hieu Dinh, Alysse Weinberg, Gregory H Cohen, Laura Sampson, Sandro Galea, Carol S Fullerton","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2021.2004785","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2021.2004785","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective</i>: Since 2004 increased rates of suicide have been noted in the US Armed Forces. We examined the association of social support (SS) trajectories and suicide ideation (SI) over a four-year period in Reserve Component (RC) servicemembers (National Guard and Reserve). We also examined baseline mental health measures, as predictors of the identified trajectories. <i>Methods</i>: Structured interviews were conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,582 RC servicemembers at baseline and three follow-up waves. Latent growth mixture modeling identified SS trajectories and the association with follow-up SI. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were used to predict SS trajectories using baseline measures of demographics and mental health. <i>Results</i>: We identified four trajectories of SS and their associated prevalence of follow-up SI: low (n = 60, 3.8%; SI = 30.5%), medium (n = 229, 14.5%; SI = 14.1%), high-low (n = 66, 4.2%; SI = 13.6%), and high-high (n = 1,227, 77.5%; SI = 4.2%). There were significant differences in follow-up SI prevalence between each pair of SS trajectories except between the medium-SS and high-low-SS trajectories. Baseline SI, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, binge drinking, and mental health diagnosis were associated with increased likelihood of being on a low-SS or medium-SS trajectory. Baseline PTSD discriminated being on the high-high-SS and high-low-SS trajectories. <i>Conclusion</i>: Results support four trajectories of social support and that individuals with low or decreasing SS are likely to have greater follow-up SI. Baseline mental health assessments can identify these risk trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"85 3","pages":"246-258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9360194/pdf/nihms-1766979.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39779465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}