Biomedical subjects

M von Rad

Publications and source records attributed to M von Rad.

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[Assessment of grief exemplified pregnancy loss: development and initial results on the validity of the Munich Grief Scale].

Bereavement research is hampered conceptually by confounding of grief and depression, methodologically by a lack of generally agreed-upon measures. Therefore we developed the Munich Grief Scale (MGS) based on the Perinatal Grief Scale (PGS, Potvin et al. 1989) and results from a previous study. Validation included comparisons with standardized self-report scales of depression, anxiety and physical symptoms. It was based on a follow-up study of 125 patients who had miscarried and 3 comparison groups who either suffered from a miscarriage or a stillbirth. Self-reports were compared to expert ratings of grief and depression. The MGS is a economical, reliable self- and expert rating scale after pregnancy loss. The applicability of the grief measures to other kinds of bereavements remains to be determined.

Abortion, Spontaneous↗

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[Psychotherapy as a career].

The author discusses the professional world and setting of a psychotherapist against the background of his subjective and personal experience manifested by typical polarities and fields of tension that exemplify in equal measure both the special features and the risks inherent in this "impossible vocation". The following problems and polarities are dealt with in detail: 1. Who chooses or is apt to become a psychotherapist? 2. Vocational training somewhere between method-oriented meticulousness and innovative keenness to experiment. 3. Self-image--projected (foreign) image. 4. Own life--foreign life. 5. Innermost reality and individual difficulty in respect of external reality and social integration.

Career Choice↗

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[Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in patient management: results of the Heidelberg Catamnesis Project].

In the "Heidelberg Long Term Psychotherapy Follow-up Project", a naturalistic study design, all types of treatment were included that had been performed at the Psychosomatic Clinic of the University of Heidelberg for a certain period (combined inpatient and outpatient individual and group therapy, as well as outpatient dynamic psychotherapies and psychoanalyses). The specific value of this project is due to the fact that--apart from many other, for instance psychological, assessment evaluations--three to five individual therapy goals had been predetermined for each patient before starting the treatment (goal attainment scaling). After the end of therapy and at the time of follow-up (3.5 years later on the average), attainment of these goals was assessed by an independent rater. A total of 208 patients were examined who were evaluated according to their diagnosis (neurotic, functional or psychosomatic disorders) and the kind of treatment. With regard to symptomatology, individual therapy goals, psychological assessment and patient satisfaction, the overall results were good, partly very good, and were almost invariably stable during the long follow-up period. Two particular results are discussed separately: 1. As far as symptomatology was concerned, the group of psychoanalysis patients could not maintain the good outcome at the end of therapy during the long follow-up period. 2. Patients with "psychosomatic disorders" attained remarkably good results, particularly if the treatment had initially been an inpatient setting.

Adolescent↗