Volume 4 - Nº 1
- Editorial
- Interdisciplinaridade no ensino médico
- Da história de Maria à memória de um encontro
- Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational Style. Construct validity: relationship with a Swedish Mood Adjective Check List – MACL
- Vision-targeted quality of life under different degrees of visual impairment
- The psychoanalytic voyage of a breast-cancer patient
- Emotional inhibition and physical health: fact or fiction?
- Attachment representation and affect regulation. Current findings of attachment research and their relevance for psychosomatic medicine
- response to Dr. Elizabeth Loftus' presentation on false memories and false beliefs – with particular reference to her study on dream interpretation
- The psychological interpretation of clinical pathology in pregnancy: a continuity hypothesis
- Psychological variables in pregnancy: does age matter? An exploratory study
- Application of narrative therapy to anorexia nervosa: a study case
- Evaluation of psychoneuroimmunological interactions in HIV infected patients
- Knowing the amygdala: its contribution to psychiatric disorders
- Recensão de Livros
- Publicações Recebidas na Redacção
- Reuniões Científicas • Calendário
Emotional inhibition and physical health: fact or fiction?
Ad Vingerhoets, Ivan Nyklicek, Johan Denollet
Attachment theory has become a focus of interest in psychosomatic research in recent years. The theoretical perspective of attachment development covers issues of the developmental predisposition for psychosomatic illness, psychobiological aspects and issues of coping. In detail four issues of psychosomatic research might be addressed from an attachment theoretical perspective: (1) Is the prevalence of insecure attachment models increased in patients with psychosomatic disturbances (developmental aspect)? (2) Does insecure attachment correlate with a higher physiological arousal in reaction to various kinds of stress (psychobiological aspect)? (3) Are associations to be found between insecure attachment and disturbances of affect regulation, which are linked to be aetiology of psychosomatic illness? (4) Are associations to be found between insecure attachment and problems of illness behaviour (aspect of coping)? In the paper presented we focus on two of these issues: we report the empirical evidence suggesting a high proportion of insecure attachment in psychosomatic disorder and discuss the links between insecure attachment, affect regulation and psychosomatic illness.
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