C Heim

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
nonrandomized-trial 1999
Chronic pelvic pain as a somatoform disorder
Psychotherapy and psychosomatics ·doi:10.1159/000012318

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychiatric disturbances, particularly somatization, and an increased number of traumatic and critical life events, which have been found in women with idiopathic chronic pelvic…

observational 1999
Psychological and endocrine correlates of chronic pelvic pain associated with adhesions
Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology ·doi:10.3109/01674829909075572

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a frequent and often unexplained gynecological complaint. We attempted to evaluate stress history, psychological features and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function in a group of patients suffering f…

observational 1998
Abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder and alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in women with chronic pelvic pain
Psychosomatic medicine ·doi:10.1097/00006842-199805000-00017

OBJECTIVE: Although numerous organic conditions may cause chronic pelvic pain (CPP), diagnostic laparoscopy reveals a normal pelvis in many patients with CPP. However, psychological studies yield a high frequency of psychopathology and incr…