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If the different forms of depression of humour are nowdays well known and easily surrounded and treated, it's for from being the case for the forms of excitation of humour, though they are as numerous. In these forms, indeed, whether they are atypical maniac attacks of hypomania, it may happen that the pathological nature of psychic excitation posses unnoticed, as well for the patient as for his familiars, or it may also happen that the excitation of humour desguises with "masks" suggesting other troubles, mental or not, which bad to delays in the setting of adapted treatments. These "masks" are essentially: -- hysteria and perturbations of character, in the neurosis register; -- delirious aspects, schizophrenical or confusional, in the psychosis register. In these states of hidden excitation, the most difficult thing, nevertheless, is to obtain from the patient a sincere claim for cares, contrarily to what can be noticed in the states of hidden deppression in which the somatical or psychological "complaints" of the patients are very easily exposed to the physician, a generalist as well as a specialist, and the treatments can be searched for.
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PMID:[The atypical forms of psychic excitation or hidden excitations (author's transl)]. 3 83

In an attempt to explain the marked inter-trial differences in the percentage of patients reported to benefit from the anxiolytic agent lorazepam, a statistical analysis was carried out on the scores from a psychiatric symptom questionnaire, completed before and after treatment with lorazepam, by 69 psychiatric out-patients. Most of the patients presented with a mixture of different syndromes, with moderate to severe symptoms, and had already failed to respond to other treatment. Forty of the patients showed a favourable response to lorazepam. Multivariate analysis of the strength of 6 symptom clusters versus therapeutic response in this diagnostically heterogeneous patient sample revealed that, in addition to anxiety, there was a high relationship also between phobic and psychosomatic symptom scores and response to lorazepam. The relationship between depression scores and response was only of borderline significance, and that for hysteria and obsessionality was poor. It is suggested that one explanation of inter-trial differences in the percentages of patients improved by lorazepam may be that they are due to differences in the diagnostic composition of the patient populations studied.
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PMID:Multivariate symptom analysis related to response to lorazepam treatment. 3 44

A proportion of postcoronary patients seen 16 to 18 months after infarction are seriously depressed (high D score on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). A follow-up of 44 such depressed patients showed a significant (p less than 0.001) decrease of standardized D scores, from 80 to 72 units over 4 years of exercise-based rehabilitation. There were associated decreases in scores for hysteria, hypochondriasis, and psychasthenia. A decrease of D score was associated with exercise compliance. An increase of D score was associated with a significant (p less than 0.05) worsening of ST segmental sagging, suggesting that progression of the disease process had contributed to the increase of depression. All of the patients had high (feminine) scores on the masculinity/femininity scale of the MMPI test. This finding was unrelated to the daily running distance or medication; it could represent a "feminine" personality, or be a typical response in a well-educated white collar group. Evidence of successful group interaction may be indicated by reduction in scores for social introversion and schizophrenic traits.
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PMID:Depression following myocardial infarction: the effects of distance running. 27 Sep 8

During the Milton health survey subjects completed a psychometric inventory consisting of the 48 questions of the Middlesex Hospital questionnaire (MHQ) and 26 from the hostility and direction of hostility questionnaire (HDHQ) designed to examine nine psychological dimensions. The 1209 subjects were classified into smoking categories and the scores for each psychometric trait were calculated. Women scored higher than men and heavy smokers scored higher than "never smokers". The psychometric traits and the scores of the four smoking categories after correcting for age and Quetelet's index showed statistically significant differences by analysis of variance in respect of somatic anxiety and depression for both men and women; and free-floating anxiety, phobic anxiety, hysteria, acting out hostility, self criticism and guilt in women. For somatic anxiety the increase in score almost exactly paralleled the increasing quantity of tobacco consumed.
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PMID:Smoking habit and psychometric scores: a community study. 28 Jul 99

Increasing materialism in society is resulting in more wide spread nervous tension in all age groups. While some degree of nervous tension is necessary in everyday living, its adverse effects require that we must learn to bring it under control. Total tension is shown to have two components: a controllable element arising from factors in the environment and the inbuilt uncontrollable residue which is basic in the individual temperament. The effects of excessive or uncontrolled stress can be classified as 1) emotional reactions such as neurotic behaviour (anxiety hypochondria, hysteria, phobia, depression obsessions and compulsions) or psychotic behaviour and 2) psychosomatic reactions (nervous asthma, headache, insomnia, heart attack). Nervous energy can be wastefully expended by such factors as loss of temper, wrong attitudes to work, job frustration and marital strains. Relaxation is the only positive way to control undesirable nervous tension and its techniques require to be learned. A number of techniques (progressive relaxation, differential relaxation, hypnosis, the use of biofeedback, Yoga and Transcendental Meditation) are described and their application to dental practice is discussed.
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PMID:Tension and relaxation in the individual. 37 62

The MMPI was administered to a group of 27 male transsexual candidates for sex change surgery, and their test results were compared with those of 24 male kidney transplant surgical candidates and 26 males suspected of having a psychophysiological disorder. The data revealed a notable absence of psychopathology among the transsexuals as well as the kidney patients, while the psychophysiological patients showed the expected elevations in the Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria scales. The results were in keeping with previous research of male-to-female sex change candidates that reject the notion that transsexuals invariably suffer major emotional disturbance.
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PMID:MMPI results of male candidates for transsexual surgery. 38 46

In a matched retrospective study, 31 patients with hysterical neurosis were compared with 31 with depressive neurosis. There were no significant differences between the groups for siblings' position, medical work, brain disease, poor marriage, frigidity, or family history of psychiatric disorder. Significantly more of the hysterics had a preceding head injury and 29% had a past history of hysteria. By the time of the study 48% had been treated for depression.
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PMID:Hysteria: a case note study. 42 3

Pelvic pain was a prominent complaint among one third of 3,000 gynecology clinic patients. In 1.1% no causative disease could be found, and these patients failed to respond to routine therapy. Twenty of these patients who were studied minutely revealed some psychologic disorder including hysteria, passive-aggressive behavior, sociopathy, depression, and alcoholism. A strong tendency toward psychophysiologic disturbances in other systems was practically universal. Supportive psychotherapy, progressive relaxation training, and insight therapy were used. The greatest barrier to treatment success was refusal of patients to accept the psychologic factors in their total illness.
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PMID:Diagnosis and treatment of nonorganic pelvic pain. 47 38

Compared with opiate addicts, alcoholics scored higher on the Hs (hypochondriasis), D (depression), Hy (hysteria). A (anxiety) and MacAndrew Scales of the MMPI and lower on the K (defensiveness). Ma (activity) and Es (ego strength) scales, but age was the most powerful discriminator between the two groups.
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PMID:Alcoholics and opiate addicts. Comparison of personality characteristics. 49 64

Functional overlay is not a recognized psychiatric diagnosis. Evaluating functional overlay and differentiating between this concept and organic conditions is important in medicolegal areas in which financial values are placed on pain and disability. Functional overlay is not malingering: the former is based on preconscious or unconscious mechanisms, the latter is consciously induced. In considering psychologic reactions to pain and disability, a gradient of simulation, malingering, symptom exaggeration, overvaluation, functional overlay and hysteria is useful. The dynamics of overlay are a combination of anxiety from body-image distortion and depression from decreased efficiency of the body, as well as the resulting psychosocial disruption in a patient's life.
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PMID:Functional overlay: an illegitimate diagnosis? 51 98


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