Research Catalog

Title

Stress and survival : the emotional realities of life-threatening illness / edited by Charles A. Garfield.

Publication

St. Louis : Mosby, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

Garfield, Charles A.

Description

xviii, 388 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Medicine and psychology
• Critically ill > Psychology
• Stress (Psychology)
• Adaptability (Psychology)
• Health care teams
• Stress (Physiology)
• Terminal care
• Hospice care
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Attitude of Health Personnel
• Disease > psychology
• Patient Care Team
• Stress, Psychological
• Terminal Care
• Psychology, Medical
• Stress, Physiological
• Hospice Care
• Terminal care
• Hospice care
• Health care teams
• Critically ill > Psychology
• Medicine and psychology
• Schwerkranker
• Psychologie
• Sozialmedizin

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 376-377.

Contents

Part I. Introduction -- On life in extremity : psychosocial elements of survival / Charles A. Garfield -- Part II. The relation of social and psychologic factors to illness -- Stress without distress/ Hans Selye -- The relation of psychological stress to onset of medical illness / Michael W. Hurst, C. David Jenkins, Robert M. Rose -- Medical nemesis / Ivan Illich -- Social stress and medical ideology / Jon Garfield -- Psychosocial processes and "stress" : theoretical formulation / John Cassel -- Hypertension as a disease of modern society / Joseph Eyer -- Part III. New dimensions in the alleviation of stress -- Psychotherapy of bodily disease : an overview / Jerome D. Frank -- Adjunctive biofeedback with cancer patients : a case presentation / Kenneth R. Pelletier -- Therapeutic touch : the imprimatur of nursing / Dolores Kreiger -- Psychobiological aspects of "spontaneous" regressions of cancer / Gotthard Booth -- Part IV. Emotional impact on health professional and patient -- The burn-out syndrome and patient care / Christina Maslach -- The psychological stresses of intensive care unit nursing / Donald Hay, Donald Oken -- Cancer, emotions, and nurses / Samuel C. Klagsbrun -- Emotions : their prescence and impact upon the helping role / Larry A. Bugen -- The coronary-care unit : an appraisal of its psychologic hazards / Thomas P. Hackett, N.H. Cassem, Howard A. Wishnie -- The hospital environment : its impact on the patient / Donald S. Kornfeld -- Part V. Personal encounters with life-threatening illness -- Anatomy of an illness (as perceived by the patient) / Norman Cousins -- Cancer is not a four-letter word / Leonard Shlain -- A therapist encounters the possibility of an early death / Howard Kogan -- Observations by a doctor who's been a CCU patient / James A. Abbott -- Private experience and public expectation on the cancer ward / Lea Baider -- Part VI. Survival : Social and psychologic support -- Psychological management of the myocardial infarction patient / Thomas P. Hackett, Ned H. Cassem -- Rehabilitating the stroke patient through patient-family groups / Judith Gregorie D'Afflitti, G. Wayne Weitz -- Emotional reactions in a renal unit / Morris Gelfman, Emilee J. Wilson -- A gynaecological experience / Anonymous -- Adjustment problems of the family of the burn patient / Gene A. Brodland, N.J.C. Andreasen -- Sex and serious illness / Bernie Zilbergeld -- Understanding the psychologic factors in rehabilitation / Herbert G. Steger -- Part VII. The chronically ill child -- Long-term physical illness in childhood : a challenge to psychosocial adaptation / Ake Mattsson -- The child with heart disease / Florence Bright Roberts -- Part VIII. Understanding pain and suffering -- The world of the patient in severe pain of long duration / Lawrence LeShan -- The foundation of bioethics / Milton D. Heifetz -- Part IX. Care of the dying patient : emotional survival -- The psychology of terminal illness as portrayed in Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward / Harry S. Abram -- The dying patient and the double-bind hypothesis / Richard C. Erickson, Bobbie J. Hyerstay -- Easing the inevitable / Chauncey D. Leake -- A child dies / Charles A. Garfield -- Dying in a system of "good care" : case report and analysis / Martin G. Netsky -- Hospice care in terminal illness / Robert Woodson -- The Shanti Project : a hopeful scenario for the dying / Ellen Goodman -- A problem solving approach to terminal illness for the family and physician / David M. Kaplan, Netta Grandstaff -- Life-threatening illness in families / Richard Burnham Jones -- Research on ascorbic acid and the dying patient / Linus Palling -- Depersonalization in the face of life-threatening danger : a description / Russell Noyes, Jr., Roy Kletti.

ISBN

• 080161743X
• 9780801617430

LCCN

78031341

OCLC

• ocm04592971
• 4592971
• SCSB-291502

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library