Chronic fatigue syndrome and the somatic expression of emotional distress: Applying the concept of illusory mental health to address the controversy

Bram, Anthony D.; Gottschalk, Kiley A.; Leeds, William

doi:10.1002/jclp.22692

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“…Figure 4 gives the content of the emotional control ability model, including emotional perception ability, emotional evaluation ability, emotional regulation selfefficacy, effective application of emotional regulation strategies, emotional regulation ability, and emotional regulation reflection ability. Emotional evaluation ability requires college students to be able to make reasonable assessments based on identifying their own emotions [24,25]. The effective application of emotional regulation strategies requires college students to consciously and flexibly apply the corresponding methods to cope with their own emotional changes [26,27].…”

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Influence of Music Intervention on Emotional Control and Mental Health Management Self-efficacy of College Students

2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Music can induce strong emotions and psychological changes. The emotional control and mental health management of college students are greatly affected by gender, family background, grade, and other factors. Through music intervention, this paper explores how music-induced emotions influence the emotional control and mental health management self-efficacy of college students. The results show that positive music promotes the control of positive emotions, as positive music can give full play to active emotions; negative music both controls and enhances the negative emotions of college students; music intervention significantly affects the pleasantness dimension of the mental health of college students, but insignificantly affects the arousal dimension. The research findings lay a basis for further studies on emotional control and mental health management of college students.

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Influence of Music Intervention on Emotional Control and Mental Health Management Self-efficacy of College Students

2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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“…They further proposed that such defensiveness may have health costs due to underlying psychological issues being presented as somatic symptoms. Links between illusory mental health and use of health-care services were observed by Cousineau and Shedler (2006) and illusory mental health has been identified in some patients receiving treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (Bram et al, 2018(Bram et al, , 2019.…”

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Paradoxical outcomes in psychotherapy: Theoretical perspectives, research agenda and practice implications

Stänicke

McLeod

2021

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

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Client self-report symptom measures are widely used in counselling and psychotherapy research and practice to track client progress and evaluate outcome. A growing body of evidence indicates differences between selfreport assessments and information collected through other sources. This paper considers a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives on this issue, including the concept of illusory mental health. Particular emphasis is given to the relevance of single-case research as a means of identifying different patterns of paradoxical outcome. Implications for practice and research are discussed. Paradoxe Ergebnisse in der Psychotherapie: theoretische Perspektiven, Forschungsagenda und Auswirkungen auf die PraxisZusammenfassung: In der Beratungs-und Psychotherapieforschung und -praxis werden häufig Maßnahmen zur Selbstberichterstattung des Klienten eingesetzt, um den Fortschritt des Klienten in der Therapie zu verfolgen und das Ergebnis zu bewerten. Eine wachsende Zahl von Beweisen weist auf Unterschiede zwischen Selbstberichtsbewertungen und Informationen hin, die aus anderen Quellen gesammelt wurden. Dieser Artikel betrachtet eine Reihe von theoretischen und empirischen Perspektiven zu diesem Thema, einschließlich des Konzepts der illusorischen psychischen Gesundheit. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Relevanz der Einzelfallforschung als Mittel zur Identifizierung verschiedener Muster paradoxer Ergebnisse gelegt. Implikationen für die Praxis und die Forschung werden diskutiert.

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“…Those individuals identified as having IMH are physiologically over-reactive and tend to express distress somatically with real physiological costs. Accordingly, a study conducted in Massachusetts by Bram, Gottschalk & Leeds (2018) adds the possibility that IMH could reflect a deficit or defensive structural weakness in the ability to access and process painful feelings. If so, unrecognized and unprocessed emotional distress would, therefore, be experienced and expressed primarily on a somatic level.…”

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Development and Case Study Application of a Proxy-Generated Outcome Measure of Suffering for use with Clients with Illusory Mental Health

Guglielmetti¹,

Benelli

2020

Int J Transactional Anal Res & Pract

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The concept of illusory mental health is described as the rationale for needing an approach for working with individuals who are unaware of their suffering and are therefore unable to describe their problems through self-report instruments. The use of a nomothetic approach using self-report or clinician-generated standardised instruments is compared with an idiographic approach for working with such individuals. A case study is used to illustrate the development and first application of a Proxy-Generated Outcome Measure (PGOM) that allows clinicians, observers and researchers to trace an individualised understanding of a client’s core sufferings and changes occurring during the process of psychotherapy. A comparison with a nomothetic outcome measure is also presented.

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Chronic fatigue syndrome and the somatic expression of emotional distress: Applying the concept of illusory mental health to address the controversy

Abstract: Findings refute reducing CFS to somatization, but there is a subgroup of CFS whose lacking access to emotional distress is associated with heightened physical symptomatology.

Cited by 6 publications

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Influence of Music Intervention on Emotional Control and Mental Health Management Self-efficacy of College Students

Influence of Music Intervention on Emotional Control and Mental Health Management Self-efficacy of College Students

Paradoxical outcomes in psychotherapy: Theoretical perspectives, research agenda and practice implications

Development and Case Study Application of a Proxy-Generated Outcome Measure of Suffering for use with Clients with Illusory Mental Health

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