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Characterize the sleep patterns and psychological features of persistent psychophysiologic insomnia in comparison to normal controls and dysthymic insomnia patients.

March 1, 1986SLEEP

Persistent Psychophysiologic (Learned) Insomnia

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PHPeter HauriDartmouth College JFJoan M. FisherPalo Alto University

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Comparative study reveals distinct psychological profiles and somatized tension in persistent psychophysiologic insomnia, indicating learned conditioning rather than severe psychopathology.

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Characterize the sleep patterns and psychological features of persistent psychophysiologic insomnia in comparison to normal controls and dysthymic insomnia patients.
Evaluated 22 patients diagnosed with persistent psychophysiologic insomnia (PPI), 22 healthy normal controls (Ns), and 19 insomnia patients with dysthymic disorders (DD).
Administered sleep questionnaires, psychological test batteries, and objective assessments of sleep staging across all cohorts.
PPI patients showed difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep similar to DD patients, yet demonstrated normal sleep staging.
PPI patients and normal controls exhibited substantially less psychopathology than DD patients across nearly all psychological scales.
Patients with PPI showed psychological profiles characterized by emotional repression, sensation avoidance, and tension-related somatic symptoms such as headaches.

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Hauri et al. (1986) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7bfd1b0449e558d7c2c17c https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/9.1.38

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Comparative study reveals distinct psychological profiles and somatized tension in persistent psychophysiologic insomnia, indicating learned conditioning rather than severe psychopathology.

Persistent Psychophysiologic (Learned) Insomnia

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Persistent Psychophysiologic (Learned) Insomnia

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