Daniel Maroti

Karolinska Institutet | KI · KIDS

During the last years, a number of trials on internet-delivered psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) have shown promising results. In this article we discuss whether two important facets of psychodynamic therapy, that of the therapeutic relationship (especially the transference) and that of emotional processing, are applicable and useful in IPDT. We argu...

Objective Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is commonly encountered in health care settings. Cognitive-behavioural treatments have been most extensively studied, but they tend to have small effects of temporary duration. Emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET) is a newly developed treatment for SSD, targeting emotional processing of trauma a...

The 25-item Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) can be used with clinical populations, but there is little research on its psychometric properties (factor structure, test–retest reliability, and validity) in individuals with psychiatric symptoms. We administered the EPS-25 to a large sample of people (N = 512) with elevated psychiatric symptoms. We us...

Objective The 25-item Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) is a measure of emotional processing. There is a scarcity of research about its factor structure, test-retest reliability, and validity in individuals with psychiatric symptoms. Method We administered the EPS-25 to a sample (N=512) of people with elevated psychiatric symptoms, using confirmato...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate emotional processing as a potential mediator in therapist-guided, internet-based Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (I-EAET) for somatic symptom disorder, using data from a previously published pilot study. Methods: Participants ( N = 52) engaged in a 9-week I-EAET treatment. Before treatm...

Background: There is growing evidence that trauma, psychosocial conflict, and difficulties with emotional processing contribute to centralized somatic symptoms. Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) was developed to address these factors and reduce symptoms, and EAET has shown efficacy in face-to-face formats. No trial of an internet-de...

Background and Aims: This study investigated the feasibility of an Internet-delivered Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (I-EAET) for adult patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD). Although EAET for SSD has been shown to be effective in both individual and group format using RCTs, no trial of an internet-delivered EAET exists. Therefor...

Background: Patients with exhaustion syndrome (ES), the clinical equivalent of long-lasting burnout, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) report overlapping symptoms such as exhaustion, fatigue, cognitive deficits and intolerance to stressors. Additionally, patients with CFS experience somatic symptoms, including bodily pain, immune symptoms, and pos...

Background: Alexithymia and emotional awareness may be considered overlapping constructs and both have been shown to be related to psychological and emotional well-being. However, it is not clear how the constructs relate to each other empirically or if they may overlap more or less in different populations. The aim of this review was therefore to...

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Clinically, there is an overlap of several symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including fatigue; brain “fog”; cognitive impairments; increased sensitivity to sound, light, and odour; increased pain and tenderness; and impaired emotional contact. Adults with CFS (n = 59) or ASD (n = 50) and healthy control...

Symptoms of Exhaustion Syndrome (ES) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) are overlapping and create difficulties of differential diagnosis. Empirical studies comparing ES and CFS are scarce. This study aims to investigate if there are any emotional differences between ES and CFS. This cross-sectional study compared self-reported alexithymia and obse...

Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome experience cognitive difficulties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of computerized training on working memory in this syndrome. Non-randomized (quasi-experimental) study with no-treatment control group and non-equivalent dependent variable design in a myalgic encephal...

Varje år dör cirka 2 000 personer i Sve-rige till följd av diabetes. Under mitten av 1990-talet satt läkaren Paul Ciechanow-ski på sitt mottagningsrum och undrade hur det kom sig att vissa av hans patien-ter med diabetes följde hans ordinationer och andra inte, trots att deras liv stod på spel. Från att ha arbetat som distrikts-läkare tog han 1997...

Objectives: Although cognitive–behaviour therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) has been shown to be effective for primary insomnia, the impact of CBT-I on insomnia comorbid with psychiatric conditions is largely unknown. Design: A multiple baseline design with 2–3 weeks of baseline, 6 weeks of CBT-I, and a 3-week follow-up was employed. Methods: Four patien...