Frederick B Levenson's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
The use of psychodynamic-oriented techniques has successfully been used to manage pain in 75 cancer patients by the use of psychodynamic principles. Pain is a subjective phenomenon that varies much from patient to patient with the same type and stage of cancer. This well-known variance is from a depth-psychological perspective explained by pain bei...
In this paper we analyze psychodynamic treatment dynamics through 75 case reports (1974-2009). The most enlightening cases show the sudden healing and the sudden deterioration and death of patients that shift to a more positive or more negative attitude toward life, respectively. Cancer seems to be highly dynamic and strongly influenced by consciou...
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... In CAM it is possible to treat and cure the most severely mentally ill patients like the schizophrenic patients (50,83), which according to the most recent Cochrane meta-analysis not be helped even to improve their mental state with biomedicine (56). Similarly we know from Ulrich Abels' famous analysis in 1992 that chemotherapy is likely to shorten life and destroy quality of life for most types of cancers (78)(79)(80)(81), while it seems that CAM can actually help patients to experience less pain (82), improve quality of life (72,73), survival (72,73,81,(83)(84)(85), and even sometimes get a complete remission of the cancer (87)(88), the same way as we have observe some schizophrenic patients spontaneously recover (89). ...
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... Several research groups have researched the possibility of developing a psychosocial treatment of cancer (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24). Such a cure has been in use by holistic physicians ever since Hippocrates and his students for the first time described this treatment in scientific terms around 300 BCE. ...
