Correlation between Obesity and Socioeconomic and Psychological Characteristics of Students Attending Different Rural School Types.

Unlabelled: We examined the prevalence of obesity in two types of schools-a comprehensive school and a grammar school-in a rural German region of Brandenburg.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, BMI values were measured in 114 students in grades 5, 7, and 10. In addition to the demographic data, data on nutrition, physical activity, and mental well-being were collected using a questionnaire.

How does our brain constitute defense mechanisms? First-person neuroscience and psychoanalysis.

Current progress in the cognitive and affective neurosciences is constantly influencing the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice. However, despite the emerging dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the neuronal processes underlying psychoanalytic constructs such as defense mechanisms remain unclear. One of the main problems in investigating the psychodynamic-neuronal relationship consists in systematically linking the individual contents of first-person subjective experience to third-person observation of neuronal states.

Psychosocial situation of living donors: moods, complaints, and self-image before and after liver transplantation.

Background: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has developed into an established therapy for terminal liver diseases. There is, however, little knowledge of the psychosocial situation of living donors. The aim of this study was to investigate the course of donors' moods, physical complaints, and self-image in the preoperative decision process and six months after surgery.

Differences in body image between anorexics and in-vitro-fertilization patients - a study with Body Grid.

Objectives: The purpose of the investigation was to explore the body image disturbance of anorexics and in-vitro-fertilization patients (IvF-patients) with Body Grid and Body Identity Plot.

Methods: The paper reports on an empirical study conducted with 32 anorexic patients and 30 IvF-patients. The structure of the body image was derived from the Body Grid, an idiographic approach following the Role Repertory Grid developed by George A.

[Disturbed regulation of self-esteem in patients with overt versus covert self-destructive behaviour].

Objectives: According to psychoanalytic models self-harming patients are characterised by an unstable self-system and a disturbed regulation of self-esteem. This is presumed to be denied or dissociated to a greater degree by those who harm themselves secretly (factitious patients) as compared to those who show open self-harm. It is hypothesised and empirically tested that self-destructive patients have more profound disorders of narcissistic self-regulation than patients without self-destruction, and that this should be more evident in patients with overt self-destructive behaviour.