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Psychological Managements for Psychosomatic Disorders

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Approximately 10% of people in Western societies suffer from migraine or a variant at some point in their lives, but Crisp et al. [1] in a community of 5000 at Shipston-on-Stour reported the high figure of 25 % in women. The incidence is higher than average in occupations demanding precise and sustained application of hand or brain, e.g. school teachers (about one in three), nurses, accountants and cashiers on the one hand, and tailors, embroiderers, watchmakers and lathe workers on the other. This appears to be due to autoselection [3]. People lacking the ability or willingness to maintain high standards, especially under pressure, gravitate to work that suits them better. Many patients with migraine also suffer from vascular (tension) headaches between attacks. These may be unilateral or bilateral and without nausea or visual phenomena. Because they may persist for days or weeks, sufferers find them very tiring and usually say they would prefer to have classical migraine which while of greater severity is of shorter duration.

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  1. 51, Anglesea Road, Ipswich, IPI 3PJ, UK

    J. W. Paulley MD, FRCP, DSc (Hon) (Formerly Consultant Physician to the Ipswich Hospitals)

  2. Department Amsterdam University Hospital, Wilhelmina Gasthuis, Velazquezstraat 13, 1077 NG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    H. E. Pelser MD (Formerly Senior Physician and Head Endocrinological Outpatient)

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Paulley, J.W., Pelser, H.E. (1989). Central Nervous System. In: Psychological Managements for Psychosomatic Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73731-2_9

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