Author: Monsen, K; Monsen, JT
Abstract: Forty patients with pain disorders participated in a controlled study. Half of the patients were treated with psychodynamic body therapy (PBT)for 33 sessions, and the other half received treatment as usual (TAU) or no treatment (NTAU). All patients were evaluated before therapy (TI), at the end of therapy (T2), and at 1-year follow-up (T3) with a visual-analogue (VAS)-pain scale (subjective experience of pain), symptom checklist (SCL-90-R), inventory of interpersonal problems (IIP-C), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and the affect-consciousness interview (ACI). The study demonstrated that at IZ the pain was significantly reduced in the PET group compared to the controls, and 50% of the PET patients reported no pain. The findings further showed a significant and substantial change on level of somatization, depression, anxiety, denial, assertiveness, and social withdrawal, and increased affect consciousness. The results remained stable at T3, and the PET patients even continued their improvement on some scales during follow-up.
Source: PSYCHOTHERAPY
Publication Year: 2000
Volume: 37
Issue nr: 3
Pages: 257 - 269