David Spiegel

TL;DR: Results suggest that specialized end-stage clinical interventions are particularly needed for cancer patients as they approach death and intervention studies for patients with deteriorating illnesses may need to take this "spike" in psychological distress and pain proximal to death into account to avoid Type II errors in evaluations of psychological outcomes.

TL;DR: This evaluation of a free cancer supportive care program initiated in a hospital outpatient setting provides initial evidence of patient satisfaction and improvement in quality of life.

TL;DR: A history of stressful or traumatic life events may reduce host resistance to tumor growth and is consistent with a possible long-lasting effect of previous life stress on stress response systems such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

TL;DR: Evidence for a dissociative subtype of post-traumatic stress disorder that may stem from more severe childhood experiences of neglect and abuse among women seeking psychotherapy for childhood sexual abuse is examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized controlled trial compared TFGT with PFGT and a waitlist condition for 166 survivors of childhood sexual abuse who were at risk for HIV infection, and found that TFGT would be superior to PFGT.