(1) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
(2) The author has analyzed the dynamics of these variants of the asthenic symptom complex to which, with the progression of the process, disturbances of the non-delirious hypochondria type are added.
(3) High hypochondria scores were related to long duration of tinnitus.
(4) One should distinguish in these patients mental disorders per se (asthenia, depression and hypochondria) and different functional-somatic, vegetative-vascular and senestopathic disorders and their combinations.
(5) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.
(6) Controlled for differences in the sex-, age- and diagnostic-distribution of the two samples, depressive patients in Addis Ababa showed significantly more somatic symptoms, hypochondrias, psychomotor restlessness and delusions of reference and persecution, but markedly less feelings of guilt.
(7) Psychiatric nosology is by no means clear and includes many diagnoses from "hysteria" to "hypochondria" or "psychosomatic", "somatization".
(8) Well movable mass was detected in the right hypochondria region by palpation.
(9) In the development of Freud's theory of the drives, the explanatory concept of the damming up of ego libido proves insufficient and has to be coupled with the notion of primary erotogenic masochism: from this point of view, hypochondria can be seen as a form of binding which thus distinguishes it from other somatic outcomes.
(10) Females of the PD group obtained significantly higher scores than females of the control group for the scales of hypochondria (p less than 0.01), depression (p less than 0.01), hysteria (p less than 0.05), and social introversion (p less than 0.01).
(11) In the 18th century the main varieties of nervous illness - hypochondria, hysteria, the spleen, the vapours and dyspepsia - became included under the general term 'nervous disorders'.
(12) The colitis patients differed from the control persons in respect of their significantly higher scores on the hypochondria scale, the depression scale, the paranoia scale and the scale measuring social introversion.
(13) Following Freud, they contrast the complaints of the hypochondriac with the belle indifférence of the hysteric, and they then inquire into the heuristic value of hypochondria as an actual neurosis; this leads them to a consideration of psychosomatic illness and the importance of the object cathexis in hypochondriacal anxiety.
(14) In regard to the distinction between operated and nonoperated patients, the former group showed a personality with a strong neurotic trait associated with dysphoria and a state of free anxiety tending toward hypochondria.
(15) For the diagnosis of hypochondriacal and hysteroid personality tendencies, a Hypochondria-Hysteria Inventory was developed and employed in 13 different samples with a total of 1206 persons.
(16) Neurosis including borderline case and vegetative dystonia was divided into eight different subtypes comprising borderline, neurasthenic state, hypochondria, obsessive neurosis or phobia, depressive neurosis, anxiety neurosis, vegetative dystonia, and others.
(17) A 73-year-old woman with a history of chronic hypochondria, depression and abdominal symptoms, such as colics, flatulence and changing fecal consistency, was diagnosed as having an "irritable colon" syndrome and "hypochondria".
(18) The hypochondria part is real enough, though – as is the fretting.
(19) The method was the most effective in patients with syndromes of obsessive and hysterical hypochondria as well as in those with cenesthopathic conditions.
(20) However, patients with high scores on test scales such as regression, hypochondria, or emotional vacuity showed better fertility characteristics.
Preoccupation
Definition:
(n.) The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.
(n.) Anticipation of objections.
Example Sentences:
(1) At junior level, safety is certain to become a greater preoccupation for parents.
(2) I’d argue, furthermore, that these preoccupations are preventing people from seeking support, as if nothing could be more the opposite of these things than admission of the need for help.
(3) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(4) Staff factors that may permit or encourage self-destructive acts include poor communications, staff disagreements, scapegoating of patients, poor staff judgment, staff self-preoccupation, and reversal of staff-patient roles.
(5) Nevertheless, Dickens's preoccupation with class in Great Expectations strikes a chord with Coltrane, who gives a good idea of what it means to him when he recalls coming across a few Bullingdon Club types outside a restaurant in Soho one night.
(6) Its position within medicine is still insecure, partly because of a one-sided preoccupation at times with psychodynamic or social factors.
(7) The Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients evidence greater depression (p less than 0.02), while the osteoarthrosis (OA) patients had higher levels of manifest aggressivity (p less than 0.01) and more somatic preoccupation (p less than 0.02).
(8) Reported effects of balding reflected considerable preoccupation, moderate stress or distress, and copious coping efforts.
(9) The fact that we as a country, as a national community, have been talking about this one way or another for a century or more suggests that it is not a preoccupation or an obsession for one party or one politician.
(10) At the same time, however, the use of a surrogate or "false colors" has had the unfortunate effect of raising and sustaining public fears and preoccupations which, in at least some cases, have probably diverted our attention away from more important contributors to disease and premature mortality.
(11) In the case of AIDS patients, a preoccupation with community care alternatives to hospitalization fails to acknowledge the central role of medical care in the management of the disease.
(12) Analysis of the appetite data showed that PSMF subjects reported significantly less hunger and preoccupation with eating than did liquid diet subjects during 2 of the 4 weeks on a very-low-calorie diet.
(13) This is a party on its way to becoming a multinational libertarian sect, whose preoccupations are no longer those either of much of its electorate or of the business community – wrestling with how genuinely to innovate, invest and motivate workforces in a world of increasingly amoral, ownerless companies so beloved and promoted by the sect.
(14) It is more important to understand this now than ever before, because never before have we been so preoccupied with social and economic issues: a preoccupation that is threatening to divert our attention from the main determinants of our specialty's future viability--the acquisition and application of new knowledge.
(15) However, most of the women felt that their doctors did not provide them with enough advice on this topic, and the women were almost unanimous in their criticism of the preoccupation of magazines with slimness.
(16) In the last few years, concern about cholesterol has become a national preoccupation.
(17) Lacan's more structural approach to the inner world provides an important counterweight to Kohut's narrow preoccupation with the two-person field, while Kohut's concept of maternal mirroring lends a humane dimension to the icy realms of Lacan's intellectual structures.
(18) Aspects other than a preoccupation with health often have a strong influence upon an individual's decision whether or not to engage in exercise.
(19) As the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, commented : “No one should pretend just combining two financially leaky buckets will magically create a watertight funding solution.” But the preoccupation with structure and funding omits a key piece of the integration puzzle: culture.
(20) Preoccupation to define the nutritional status of Puerto Rican families migrating to the United States, motivated the present research.