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PubMed2003

Personality variables in patients with self-reported reactions to dental amalgam.

Personality variables in persons with self-reported reactions to dental amalgam (amalgam patients, n = 26, 17 F, 9 M) and in others without such symptoms (controls, n = 21, 14 F, 7 M) are compared. The groups were comparable regarding age, education, and amount of amalgam. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) profiles were obtained for all subjects. On MMPI-2, the amalgam patients presented a 'conversion V' pattern, and elevated psychasthenia and schizophrenia scales, reflecting an increased prevalence of psychological and somatic complaints compared with the controls. This indicates that amalgam patients experience ill health, as their personality profiles bear several similarities with other groups with long-lasting symptoms.

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PubMed1990

Hypnotherapy in a case of pruritus and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

A 24-year-old patient was treated using hypnotic intervention for extreme pruritus. With hypnotherapy the pruritus cleared. Six months after her final appointment she sought hypnotherapy for unexplainable increasing numbness and pain. With hypnotherapy she experienced temporary relief. Later a diagnosis of Guillain-Barre syndrome was made. Hypnotherapy appeared to improve muscle function temporarily in the acute stage of the patient's disease. Hypnotherapy to reduce the symptoms of Guillain-Barre should be investigated further.

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PubMed1993

Hypnotherapy and contractures of the hand.

Contractures of the hand are rather uncommon conversion phenomena. As yet, very little is known about treatment. After a brief overview of the literature on the various treatment strategies, we describe the treatment of four patients. There are indications that a complaint-centered approach, which attempts to influence the symptom directly, produces positive results. Hypnotherapeutic techniques were used in the four patients described here. Treatment resulted in improvement in three of the four.

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PubMed1998

The inpatient treatment of patients suffering from (motor) conversion symptoms: a description of eight cases.

This article presents a preliminary study that used two controlled randomized trials to study the effect of hypnosis in the treatment of eight patients with (motor) conversion symptoms. Controlled research into the treatment of conversion symptoms is scarce and can often be criticized on methodological grounds. It would appear, however, that both the use of suggestive and behavioral therapeutic techniques and eclectic treatment programs yield good results in the treatment of conversion symptoms. The results of the study suggest that comprehensive clinical treatment including hypnosis has enough promise to be studied in clinical trials. In the interpretation of the results, special attention is given to primary diagnosis, duration of complaints, traumatic experiences in childhood, dissociative capacity, and hypnotizability.

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