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Attachment and interpersonal communication in somatization.

Scott Stuart, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1999 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 1, pp 34-43
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It is hypothesize that somatizing patients display anxious attachment behavior that derives from childhood experiences with caregivers that reinforces the somatizer's belief that he or she will be abandoned.
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This article is published in Psychosomatics.The article was published on 1999-01-01. It has received 203 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Somatization & Interpersonal relationship.

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Functional Somatic Syndromes

TL;DR: A six-step strategy for helping patients with functional somatic syndromes is presented here and helps to heighten their fears and pessimistic expectations, prolong their disability, and reinforce their sick role.
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Adult attachment measures: a 25-year review.

TL;DR: In addition to reliability and validity, investigators need to consider relationship focus, attachment constructs, dimensions or categories of interest, and the time required for training, administration, and scoring.
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Attachment and psychosomatic medicine: developmental contributions to stress and disease.

TL;DR: Evidence supports the prediction from attachment theory that the benefits of social support derive more from attachment relationships than nonattachment relationships and can be organized into a model that describe attachment insecurity leading to disease risk through three mechanisms.
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Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: review and update

TL;DR: An overview of studies of the diagnosis, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures is provided.
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Explaining medically unexplained symptoms-models and mechanisms.

TL;DR: It is concluded that psychological mechanisms such as expectation, distraction, and memory processes need to be integrated with biological models to aid understanding of MUS.
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The Social System

TL;DR: In the history of sociological theory, Talcott Parsons holds a very special place. as discussed by the authors presents a major scientific and intellectual advance towards the theory of action first outlined in his earlier work.
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The Social System.

TL;DR: In the history of sociological theory, Talcott Parsons holds a very special place. as mentioned in this paper presents a major scientific and intellectual advance towards the theory of action first outlined in his earlier work.
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The making and breaking of affectional bonds. I. Aetiology and psychopathology in the light of attachment theory. An expanded version of the Fiftieth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 19 November 1976.

TL;DR: Though attachment theory incorporates much psychoanalytic thinking, many of its principles derive from ethology, cognitive psychology and control theory, and it conforms to the ordinary criteria of a scientific discipline.