Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Relaxation in Chronic Migraine Patients.

The present study attempts to examine the effect of cognitive behavior therapy and relaxation practices on chronic migraine patients. 50 treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at SIMPHS Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range from 20 to 55 years with a mean age of 38.4 years and mean length of intolerable pain of 6.8 years. Indian adaptation of T.A.T. (Seven cards: 1, 3B, 4, 6BM, 7BM, 13MF, and 16), Defense Mechanism Inventory and Questionnaire for Dependency were administered to ascertain personality, defense mechanism and dependency characteristics on eleven selected dimensions viz: need, press, interpersonal relations, outcome, reversal, principalization, turning against self, projection, turning against object, internal dependency and external dependency. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicated that the characteristics associated with treated chronic migraine patients were cognizance, dominance, autonomy, achievement, counteraction, affiliation, sex capacity, interpersonal relations, outcome, projection turning against object and internal dependency whereas the characteristics associated with non-treated chronic migraine patients were aggression, rejection, passivity, acquisition, anxiety, , reversal, principalization, turning against self, internal dependency, external dependency and press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]