The most recent edition of the "Cecil Textbook of Medicine," a volume of more than two thousand pages that is one of the bibles of internal medicine, includes only two sentences on hypochondria: ''Chronic preoccupation with the idea of having a serious disease.
The most recent edition of the "Cecil Textbook of Medicine," a volume of more than two thousand pages that is one of the bibles of internal medicine, includes only two sentences on hypochondria: "Chronic preoccupation with the idea of having a serious disease.
May 6 is International No Diet Day, a day established to challenge the cultural attitudes and values that contribute to chronic dieting, weight preoccupation, eating disorders, and size discrimination.
The film allows him, too, to display his chronic sense of inadequacy and his preoccupation with being seen as a "real man".
The transition from a common episode of acute pain to a state of intermittent or chronic pain has been a constant preoccupation of researchers and clinicians alike.
Human alcohol dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder characterised by a preoccupation with obtaining alcohol, loss of control over its consumption, tolerance, withdrawal, and impairment in functioning in both social and work related situations [1].
In 1992, it was defined by the NCADD and ASAM as "a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking".
A paradigm shift has been called for, from preoccupation with simple curative interventions to chronic disease management, long-term support and care.
The psychiatrist's acquaintance with the phenomenon of "non-specific specificity" is, in our view, extremely important in the context of early diagnostic assessment, especially of patients presenting with a vague, unelaborated picture of maladjustment, underperformance, chronic malaise and dysphoria, negative symptoms, or hypochondriac preoccupations.
Senator Patrick McCarran, of Nevada, a co-sponsor of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which, among other provisions, made it easier to bar immigrants who had chronic diseases, offered a metaphor that made explicit immigration law's preoccupation with purity.
Like Hewitt Hewittt et al. 1998), we found that self-oriented perfectionism was uniquely associated with chronic depressive symptoms after controlling for chronic (hypo manic symptoms; this suggests a preoccupation with high standards for oneself and a punitive response when mistakes are made, or when perfectionistic standards are not met.
