Awareness of cardiac function in anxious, phobic and hypochondriacal patients
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 10 (1) , 171-174
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700039726
Abstract
SYNOPSIS Awareness of pulse rate was tested in 60 psychiatric out-patients with anxiety, phobic or hypochondriacal neuroses by asking them to record how fast their hearts were beating during exposure to short film sequences. Correlations between subjective and objective heart rate (ECG) were significantly higher in anxious and hypochondriacal patients than in phobic ones. The results suggest that somatic symptoms in hypochondriacal and anxiety neurosis reflect increased awareness of bodily function.Keywords
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