Research Catalog

Title

The Wellness book : the comprehensive guide to maintaining health and treating stress-related illness / Herbert Benson, Eileen M. Stuart and associates at the Mind/Body Medical Institute of the New England Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School ; illustrations and graphics by Michael P. Goldberg.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1993.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Benson, Herbert, 1935-2022
• Harvard Medical School. Mind/Body Medical Institute
• Stuart, Eileen M.

Description

xvi, 493 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Millions of readers are familiar with the work of Dr. Herbert Benson and the Mind/Body Medical Institute from the mega-bestselling book The Relaxation Response. With over three million copies in print, it is a classic in the field of mind/body medicine. Now, in The Wellness Book, Dr. Benson, Eileen Stuart, and their colleagues at the Institute have created the definitive resource that shows you how to maintain your health and treat stress-related illnesses"--Back cover.

Subject

• Health Behavior
• Health Promotion
• Medicine, Psychosomatic
• Mental Healing
• Psychosomatic Medicine
• Relaxation
• Relaxation Therapy
• Stress management
• Stress, Physiological > prevention & control
• Stress, Psychological

Note

• Previously published: Birch Lane/Carol Pub., 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The beginning / Sue C. Jacobs, Cynthia Medich -- The mind/body model of health and illness / Margaret Caudill-Slosberg, Richard Friedman -- Getting started / Sue C. Jacobs, Cynthia Medich -- The relaxation response / Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, Herbert Benson -- Eliciting the relaxation response / Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, Herbert Benson -- Tuning in to your body, tuning up your mind / Margaret Flood Ennis -- Move into health / James S. Huddleston -- Nutrition for good health / Judith Linsey Palken, Alan E. Shackelford -- A sensible approach to weight loss / Judith Linsey Palken -- Managing stress / Eileen M. Stuart, Ann Webster, Carol L. Wells-Federman -- How thoughts affect health / Ann Webster, Eileen M. Stuart, Carol L. Wells-Federman -- Feelings, moods, and attitudes / Carol L. Wells-Federman, Ann Webster, Eileen M. Stuart -- Coping and problem-solving / Eileen M. Stuart, Anne Webster, Carol L. Wells-Federman -- Communicating / Carol L. Wells-Federman, Eileen M. Stuart, Ann Webster -- Jest 'n' joy / Margaret Baim, Loretta LaRoche -- Improving your sleep / Gregg D. Jacobs.
• Infertility and women's health / Alice D. Domar -- Behavioral medicine and cancer / Ursula Brandt, Leo Stolbach -- Eating healthfully to prevent undernutrition / Judith Linsey Palken, Alan E. Shackelford -- Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV disease / Ann Webster -- Cardiovascular disease : the heart of the matter / Eileen M. Stuart [and others] -- Living with heart disease and diabetes : exercise can help / James S. Huddleston -- Eating for the health of your heart / Judith Linsey Palken -- The end of the beginning / Cynthia Medich, Sue C. Jacobs.

ISBN

0671797506

LCCN

^^^92039899^

OCLC

26974732

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library