Allergy and neurosis in asthma

Dekker, E; Barendregt, J. T.; Vries, K. de

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(61)90018-6

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“…Three out of 4 groups of recent investigations have demonstrated psychological differences between groups differing in the extent of "manifest allergy" or response to treatment. Differences between the Dekker et al, 31 Block, 19 and Feingold et al i6 studies may be attributable to different psychological techniques; Dekker pointed out that the Heron Inventory was in the early stages of validation. Purcell's work also cannot be compared completely because of the much greater severity of illness in his samples; thus, finding no differences in degree of psychological disturbance between rapidly remitting and steroid dependent children may be related to the effects of serious and prolonged illness.…”

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“…Dekker et al, 31 compared 79 adult female asthma outpatients with 30 female normal subjects and 100 women patients at a psychoanalytic institute by use of the Heron Two-Part Personality Inventory, a relatively new paper-and-pencil inventory. The authors reported no differences between asthmatics and neurotics on this test, but they did find significant differences between asthmatics and normals; these findings seemed to support the hypothesis that asthmatics are neurotic.…”

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Psychological Variables in Allergic Disorders: A Review

Freeman

Feingold

Schlesinger

et al. 1964

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Experimental and clinical studies relating psychological variables and allergic illness are summarized and critically reviewed. Special emphasis is given to methodological issues. The review, embracing principally English-language reports since 1950, focuses on respiratory allergy-asthma, rhinitis, hay fever.A SYCHOLOGICAL variables, viewed as etiological factors or as concomitant processes in allergic disease, have long been of speculative interest. Since 1950, the body of research and clinical reports relating psychological variables and allergic illness has grown rapidly. This paper will summarize and critically review this body of literature with the aim of integrating findings from diverse sources and methods. Special emphasis will be placed on methodological aspects in order to provide a focus for evaluating the current status of the area and to suggest profitable areas for future work.Mainly, papers in English dealing with psychological factors in respiratory allergy, published since 1950, are reviewed. Previous work has been comprehensively reviewed by Dunbar and Leigh; 37 however, certain influential earlier papers are included in the present review as points of orientation. A From the Allergy Department of the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, Calif. few papers from other languages also are discussed and are conceptually linked to investigations in English-speaking countries. The great size of this body of research dictates these limitations and the focus on respiratory allergy.

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Psychological Variables in Allergic Disorders: A Review

Freeman

Feingold

Schlesinger

et al. 1964

Psychosomatic Medicine

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“…XXVIII, NO. 5,1966 significant and were given a coefficient of 4. Scratch test responses of Plus 1 and Plus 2 were multiplied by a coefficient of 3.…”

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“…This hypothesis has been directly challenged by Dekker et al 5 in an investigation of neurotic factors in asthmatic women. They used objective criteria for both the somatic and the psychologic variables studied.…”

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Incidence of Psychosomatic Predisposing Factors in Allergic Disorders

Jacobs

Friedman

Franklin

et al. 1966

Psychosomatic Medicine

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To determine the incidence of psychosomatic predisposing factors in allergic disorders, somatic and psychologic batteries were devised and were administered to 65 male college students, 41 oi whom had been independently diagnosed as having allergic symptomatology, and 24 of whom had been independently diagnosed as free of such illness.In 75.6% of the subjects with allergies, both a somatic and a psychologic predisposing factor were evidenced, and in 75.0% of the subjects free of allergic disorders a concurrence of such factors was not present. This finding was statistically significant at the 0.001 level of confidence./JLN APPROACH to the study of the predisposing and precipitating factors of particular disorders which may be termed "psychosomatic" naturally must involve examination of both psychologic and biologic variables thought to be associated with the onset and persistence of the disorder.Such an approach has been exemplified by the work of Weiner et al., i8 which was concerned with factors involved in

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