The interplay of personality pathology and treatment outcome in psychosomatic psychotherapy: A longitudinal analysis using latent change score modelling.

Introduction: While ample data demonstrate the effectiveness of inpatient psychosomatic treatment, clinical observation and empirical evidence demonstrate that not all patients benefit equally from established therapeutic methods. Especially patients with a comorbid personality disorder often show reduced therapeutic success compared to other patient groups. Due to the heterogeneous and categorical personality assessment, previous studies indicated no uniform direction of this influence.

The multicenter effectiveness study of inpatient and day hospital treatment in departments of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany.

Background: Reliable outcome data of psychosomatic inpatient and day hospital treatment with a focus on psychotherapy are important to strengthen ecological validity by assessing the reality of mental health care in the field. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of inpatient and day hospital treatment in German university departments of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in a prospective, naturalistic, multicenter design including structured assessments.

Methods: Structured interviews were used to diagnose mental disorders according to ICD-10 and DSM-IV at baseline.

[Psychosocial consequences of urinary incontinence - tabooed and undertreated: a systematic review].

Background: Urinary incontinence is a significant health problem that can affect both women and men of all ages. It is not a life-threatening condition, but symptoms can have a strong impact on the physical, psychological and social well-being of those affected. Existing literature mainly reports on incontinent patients over 65 years of age.

[Pitfalls in communicating with patients with chronic pain in urology-from pain games to loss of authority].

Patients with chronic pain syndromes are often referred to as "difficult" patients. In addition to positive expectations of the physicians' competence, pain patients often express understandable doubts about the appropriateness and efficiency of new treatment options and are afraid of rejection and devaluation. Hope and disappointment, idealization and devaluation alternate in a characteristic way.

Perceived distress, personality characteristics, coping strategies and psychosocial impairments in a national German multicenter cohort of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Background And Aims:  This study examined differences in personality, psychological distress, and stress coping in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) depending on type of disease and disease activity. We compared patients suffering from Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) with controls. While the literature is replete with distinctive features of the pathogenesis of IBD, the specific differences in psychological impairments are not well studied.

[Feasibility and effects of a psychotherapeutic group intervention for caregiving relatives of people with dementia].

Introduction: Family caregivers of people with dementia (PwD) have a high burden and therefore are themselves at a high risk for psychiatric and somatic morbidities. Although individual psychotherapy has been shown to be a potentially effective treatment, it is rarely used by family caregivers. Possible reasons are poor accessibility and time restrictions on the side of the caregiver.

[The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics System (OPD-2): validity of the Axis I "Experience of illness and prerequisites for treatment"].

The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics System (OPD) was introduced in order to allow for operationalized and reproducible psychoanalytic diagnoses. A revised version of the instrument was published in 2006. Validation studies are lacking for its Axis I, in particular.