TY - JOUR
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
KW - Health Care Costs
KW - Health Services/economics/utilization
KW - Health Status
KW - Humans
KW - Object Attachment
KW - Psychological Theory
KW - Psychotherapy, Brief/methods
KW - Psychotherapy/economics/methods
KW - Somatoform Disorders/economics/psychology/therapy
KW - United States
AU - R. Maunder
AU - J. Hunter
A1 - 
AB - Persistent medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are a serious problem because they are common, difficult to treat effectively, and have a significant impact on both functional outcomes and health-care utilization costs. An attachment-existential formulation of psychological factors that are associated with persistent MUS is presented, based on the interaction of death anxiety and preoccupied (anxious) attachment. Psychotherapeutic treatment recommendations that follow from this formulation are described in the form of a brief psychotherapy, involving semi-structured weekly sessions and narrative-writing homework that explores attachment and existential themes. This is the first description of a brief psychotherapy that integrates attachment theory and existential psychology.
BT - American Journal of Psychotherapy
C5 - Medically Unexplained Symptoms
CP - 1
CY - United States
IS - 1
JF - American Journal of Psychotherapy
N2 - Persistent medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are a serious problem because they are common, difficult to treat effectively, and have a significant impact on both functional outcomes and health-care utilization costs. An attachment-existential formulation of psychological factors that are associated with persistent MUS is presented, based on the interaction of death anxiety and preoccupied (anxious) attachment. Psychotherapeutic treatment recommendations that follow from this formulation are described in the form of a brief psychotherapy, involving semi-structured weekly sessions and narrative-writing homework that explores attachment and existential themes. This is the first description of a brief psychotherapy that integrates attachment theory and existential psychology.
PP - United States
PY - 2004
SN - 0002-9564; 0002-9564
SP - 17
EP - 33
EP - 
T1 - An integrated approach to the formulation and psychotherapy of medically unexplained symptoms: meaning- and attachment-based intervention
T2 - American Journal of Psychotherapy
TI - An integrated approach to the formulation and psychotherapy of medically unexplained symptoms: meaning- and attachment-based intervention
U1 - Medically Unexplained Symptoms
U2 - 15106397
VL - 58
VO - 0002-9564; 0002-9564
Y1 - 2004
ER -