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The Multi-Center Dilemma Project: an investigation on the role of cognitive conflicts in health

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The Multi-Center Dilemma Project is a collaborative research endeavour aimed at determining the role of dilemmas  a kind of cognitive conflict, detected by using an adaptation of Kelly"s Repertory Grid Technique  in a variety of clinical conditions. Implicative dilemmas appear in one third of the non-clinical group (n = 321) and in about half of the clinical group (n = 286), the latter having a proportion of dilemmas that doubles that of the non-clinical sample. Within the clinical group, we studied 87 subjects, after completing a psychotherapy process, and found that therapy helps to dissolve those dilemmas. We also studied, independently, a group of subjects diagnosed with social phobia (n = 13) and a group diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (n = 13) in comparison to non-clinical groups. In both health related problems, dilemmas seem to be quite relevant. Altogether, these studies, though preliminary (and with a small group size in some cases), yield a promising perspective to the unexplored area of the role of cognitive conflicts as an issue to consider when trying to understand some clinical conditions, as well as a focus to be dealt with in psychotherapy when dilemmas are identified. Keywords: cognitive conflict, repertory grid technique, personal construct theory, social phobia, irritable bowel syndrome.

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Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2004, vol. 7, num. 1, p. 69-78

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(c) The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2004

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Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia)

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The Multi-Center Dilemma Project: an investigation on the role of cognitive conflicts in health