Positive interventions cannot prevent the occurrence of symptoms triggered by negative pictures

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PTW | Versorgungs-, Berufs- & Ausbildungssituation der Psychotherapie und der (angehenden) Psychotherapeut*innen Mit der Reform wurde die Ausbildung von Psychotherapeut*innen der Ausbildungsarchitektur der den anderen akademischen Heilberufen angepasst. D.h.: Eine Finanzierungsregelung für die…

Eine Finanzierungsregelung für Weiterbildungsstellen der neuapprobierten Assistenzpsychotherapeut*innen fehlt bislang!
Aufgrund der Pauschalkürzung der Psychotherapieleistungen verschärft sich nun auch die Versorgungssituation zusätzlich!
#Psychotherapie #PTW #PiA #PiW
#Psychotherapiewissenschaft

A Large-Group 1-Day RCT Investigating the Effectiveness of Four Different Strategies to Promote the Outcome of Exposure Therapy in 519 Patients with Phobic Fear of Flying Abstract. Introduction: Despite its status as the gold standard for treating fear and anxiety, exposure therapy leaves room for optimization. Clarifying and testing the clinical relevance of proposed ...

519 Patient:innen in 4 Flugzeugen - eine sehr spannende Erfahrung, die nun auch publiziert wurde.
Fazit: One Session Treatment als Gruppentherapie wirkt!

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Graphical abstract showing four panels. Panel 1: a person in an MRI scanner with blue cognitive thought bubbles drifting from their head and pink body thought bubbles from their torso, with organs glowing inside. Panel 2: blue bubbles for cognitive items (Self, Words, Focus, Images, Future, Past) are larger than pink bubbles for body items (Breathing, Movement, Stomach, Heart, Skin, Bladder), with arrows showing body thoughts link to more negative and less positive emotion. Panel 3: physiological traces (EGG, ECG, respiratory) show higher arousal with body-wandering; a bar chart shows cognitive items (Past, Future, Repetitive, Vivid) correlate with more ADHD and depression symptoms while body items (Breath, Stomach, Skin, Heart) correlate with fewer. Panel 4: medial brain with thalamus, somatomotor cortex, and interoceptive regions highlighted, plus a chord diagram showing connectivity between these three regions.

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression This randomized clinical trial investigates the efficacy and safety of psilocybin, 25 mg, with adjunct psychotherapy in treatment-resistance major depression.

SPIN GRAND CHELEM 🏆
Psilocybin JAMA Psychiatry trial 🍄
a) Positive framing despite negative primary outcome,
b) Inconclusive results presented as supportive evidence,
c) Safety concerns downplayed with reassuring wording.
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit (m/w/d) im Drittmittelprojekt - Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit

Wer hat Interesse, in einer multizentrischen Psychotherapiestudie des Deutschen Zentrums für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG) am Standort Bochum mitzuarbeiten? Aktuell ist bei uns innerhalb des Projekts POSIDONIA eine 75%-TVL-14-Stelle zu vergeben: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...

One Or Many Environmental Intolerance(s)? A Cluster Analysis Over Two Representative Samples
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A longitudinal bifactor approach to modelling somatic symptom development in psychosomatic treatment

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Illustration einer Hand, die eine blau-gelbe Fahne hält. Darunter steht der Text: Dringender Spendenaufruf des Rektorats.

Ein eindringlicher Hilferuf unserer ukrainischen Partneruniversität, der Staatlichen Taras-Schewtschenko-Universität in Kyiv, hat uns erreicht.

Unser Rektorat bittet um Spenden, um in dieser akuten Notsituation schnell und konkret zu helfen.

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Interview and self-report measures of personality disorder criteria are not structurally equivalent. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

🧠💡Reden ist Silber, Ausprobieren ist Gold!
Am 20.06. organisieren wir in Frankfurt ein Praxissymposium zum Thema Verhaltensexperimente. Programm: Vorträge & Workshops mit führenden Expert:innen, u.a. @michaelwitthoeft.bsky.social. Jetzt informieren & anmelden! www.uni-frankfurt.de/110078906/Pr...

Sometimes, doing research feels truly fulfilling. Working on this paper was one of those moments. doi.org/10.1037/ccp0...

Prevalence of self-reported sensitivities to various environmental factors in Germany, Sweden, and Finland based on multiple classification criteria
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The @springernature.com book "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig" is out: 22 authors, 16 chapters. Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, Musicology, Philosophy, ... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Verlängerung für zwei Bochumer Sonderforschungsbereiche Plasmaforschung und Extinktionslernen: Beide Sonderforschungsbereiche starten in ihre jeweils dritte Förderphase.

Zwei Bochumer Sonderforschungsbereiche gehen in die jeweils dritte Förderphase: Es geht um Plasmaforschung und ums Extinktionslernen, also einmal Gelerntes wieder loszuwerden.

Physical Activity Decreases Somatic Symptom Distress in the Affect and Symptom Paradigm
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Support for Predictive Processing Assumptions on Health Anxiety: Imprecise Expectations on the Origin of Somatic Symptoms Increase Health Anxiety
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Neue Studie zur Wirksamkeit ambulanter #Psychotherapie mit digitalem Therapiebegleiter bei chronischen Körperbeschwerden 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/neue-behandlungsstudie-u...

Symptoms associated with environmental factors are positively related to sensory-processing sensitivity Symptoms associated with environmental factors (SAEFs) are conditions characterized by chronic somatic symptom distress and impaired everyday function…

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Gestern haben über 1300 Menschen für die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung demonstriert, davon 600 in Köln, 500 in Bochum und 200 in Marburg. Gemeinsam haben wir deutlich gemacht, dass es JETZT gesetzliche Regelungen zur Finanzierung der Weiterbildung benötigt.

TIL that Dale invented the heartbeat counting task, not Schandry, and that it was known from the very first study that people underestimated their heart rate. It was orginally called a heart rate estimation task! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2...

How temporally stable are somatic symptoms induced by a commonly used experimental paradigm? And do they predict somatic symptom distress over time?

These questions were addressed in an Open Access study of participants who completed the Affect and Symptom Paradigm 18 months apart. #PsychSciSky

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Psychotherapists have claimed for >100 years that they provide/adjust interventions in view of the client's characteristics -- but all based on their personal experiences and opinions. Here we have the first-ever system to do so based on evidence.

@severinhennemann.bsky.social

🔥Frisch gedruckt im PTJ🔥: @tkaiser.science , Rafaële Huntjens und ich haben in dem Artikel gängige (Fehl-)Annahmen in der klinischen Praxis im Zusammenhang mit der
Dissoziativen Identitätsstörung (#DIS) aus Sicht der Wissenschaft näher beleuchtet. Ein Thread 🧵: 1/

🚨Rituelle Gewalt - Realität oder Fiktion?🚨:
@tkaiser.science, Rafaële Huntjens, Renate Volbert und ich haben im neuen PTJ das Thema organisierte Kriminalität & Rituelle Gewalt unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe näher beleuchtet.🔎
Hier ist der Volltext🗞️👇🏻:
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You know you are old when your former PhD student gives a Keynote at your favorite conference. I very much enjoy the amazing talk by @danielamier.bsky.social on social cognition in schizophrenia at #PuG2025

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

Inside FND YouTube video by Jon Stone

"Inside FND" - a new short film about FND

A film that draws on evidence from patients, clinicians and research to counter common misconceptions about Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). 🧵
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