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Psychology and health

Title
Psychology and health / Donald A. Bakal.
Author
Bakal, Donald A.
Publication
New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1992.

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Additional Authors
Bakal, Donald A.
Description
xi, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Psychology & health.
Subject
  • Clinical health psychology
  • Medicine and psychology
  • Medicine, Psychosomatic
  • Mental illness
  • Clinical psychology
  • Disease > psychology
  • Holistic Health
  • Mental Disorders
  • Psychology, Clinical
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • mental disorders
  • Mental illness
  • Clinical psychology
  • Clinical health psychology
  • Medicine and psychology
  • Medicine, Psychosomatic
  • Gesundheitspsychologie
  • Psychopharmakologie
  • Psychoneuroimmunologie
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: Psychology and medicine. c1979.
  • Cover title: Psychology & health.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-234) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Integrating Body and Mind. Introduction. Psychobiology and Holistic Experience. Traditional Psychosomatic Theory. Signs, Symptoms, and Somatization. Symptoms Within Systems -- 2. Emotions. Peripheral Determinants of Feeling. Brain Processes. Biopsychosocial Approaches. Clinical Anxiety and Panic. Somatic Awareness. Regulating Internal States -- 3. Understanding Stress. Initial Formulations. Transactional Model. Bodily Responses and Individuality. Social Support: Cause or Consequence? Sleep Disturbance: Insomnia. Psychological Stress and Surgery. Trauma and Stress. Stress Management Training -- 4. Mind and the Immune System. A Note of Caution. The Immune System. Behavioral Immunology. Psychoimmunology. Psychological Susceptibility and Cancer. Cancer Control and the "Fighting Spirit" Guided Imagery and Visualization. Novation Therapy. Balanced Perspective -- 5. Psychopharmacology: Mood Disorders and Addictions. Drugs and the Psychobiologic Perspective.
  • Modes of Psychoactive Drug Action. Anxiolytics and the Benzodiazepine Receptor. Trycyclic Medications. Placebo and Double-Blind Design. Somatic-Cognitive Interface in Depression. Drug Addiction and Craving. Classical Conditioning, Drug Tolerance, and Withdrawal. Relapse Prevention Model -- 6. Pain. Complexity of Pain. Physiological Mechanisms. Psychology of Pain Tolerance. Childbirth Labor Pain. Neuralgia and Phantom Limb Pain. Sensory Pain Control Techniques. Migraine and Daily Tension Headache. Low Back Pain and Pain Behavior. Cancer Pain Control -- The Challenge.
ISBN
  • 0826179002
  • 9780826179005
LCCN
91005241
OCLC
  • ocm25051225
  • 25051225
  • SCSB-1998023
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library