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Use of the Gottschalk-Gleser Verbal Content Analysis Scales with Medically Ill Patients

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The past several years have seen a dramatic upsurge in interest in the psychological aspects of medical illness [1–8]. Subdivisions of health psychology and behavioral medicine have developed within the field of psychology, paralleling the growth of the consultation liaison subspecialty within psychiatry. Such specialization is a result of greater interest among medical specialties in the psychological sequelae of technologically sophisticated therapies. Germ-free environments [9] and coronary care units [10] represent two types of environmentally stressful treatments. Radiotherapy [11–14] and chemotherapy [15] pose unique psychological stresses and psychiatric syndromes for patients with cancer.

Reprinted from Psychosomatic Medicine (45: 305–320, 1983) with permission of the authors and publisher.

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  1. Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Division, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, 92717, Irvine, CA, USA

    Louis A. Gottschalk M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Psychiatry and Director) (Professor of Psychiatry and Director)

  2. Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, P.O. Box 70055, Santiago 7, Chile

    Fernando Lolas M. D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, P.O. Box 1144, 2500, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

    Linda Louise Viney (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Lebovits, A.H., Holland, J.C. (1986). Use of the Gottschalk-Gleser Verbal Content Analysis Scales with Medically Ill Patients. In: Gottschalk, L.A., Lolas, F., Viney, L.L. (eds) Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71085-8_10

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