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Recovering From Heart Disease in Body & Mind: Medical and Psychological Strategies for Living with Coronary Artery Disease
: :There is an undeniable link between one's state of mind and the ability to recover from heart attacks and other coronary events. Cowritten by a psychiatrist and a cardiologist, this book examines both the medical and psychological ramifications of coronary heart disease, providing specific physical, mental, and emotional strategies for recovery.
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How Shall I Live
: :There is an undeniable link between one's state of mind and the ability to recover from heart attacks and other coronary events. Cowritten by a psychiatrist and a cardiologist, this book examines both the medical and psychological ramifications of coronary heart disease, providing specific physical, mental, and emotional strategies for recovery.
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Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
: :Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these 'case studies': the tendency in contemporary medical ...
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Handbook of Psychology, Health Psychology (Handbook of Psychology)
from: Wiley
: : Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. Presents the work of an international group of experts. Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.
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The Self-Healing Personality: Why Some People Achieve Health and Others Succumb to Illness
: :With breakthroughs in understandings of the disease prone and self-healing personalities Dr. Howard S. Friedman gives his answers to important questions. Why are certain people more likely to achieve health than other, seemingly similar, people? How can one increase their chances of preserving their health? What are the health effects of our chronic mood states? How are heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and other diseases related to personality? How can the disease-prone personality be altered? The answers to these questions are emerging from an exciting new interdisciplinary health science, and The Self-Healing Personality ...
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The Power of Hope: A Doctor`s Perspective (Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine)
: :In this book an eminent physician explores how patients and caring doctors can help lessen suffering when illness occurs. Dr. Howard Spiro urges that physicians focus on their patients' feelings of pain and anxiety as well as on physical symptoms. He also suggests that patients and their doctors be receptive to the emotional relief that may be obtained from nature and from hope. Drawing on his previous highly praised work on the doctor-patient relationship and the problem of pain, Dr. Spiro tells how people can be helped by a combination of alternative ...
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Health Psychology: Challenging the Biomedical Model
: :Not only examines the present state of health psychology but also provides the reader with an exciting glimpse of its future. The differences between the biomedical and the biopsychosocial model are precisely illustrated and powerful evidence is given to demonstrate the urgent need for a change of models in order to cope with the psychological health changes of the 21st century. Without relinquishing the significance of experimental or theoretical work, it focuses on the practice of health psychology. Along with actual case studies, the summaries and discussion questions at the end of ...
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Your Healing Mind
: :A look at the mind-body treatment that heals such disorders as heart disease, high blood pressure, infertility, sexual dysfunction, chronic fatigue syndrome, and multiple chemical sensitivities provides case studies and discusses results. 35,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Author tour.
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Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Transplantation
from: Springer
: :The field of transplantation has grown significantly in the last 25 years. Improved surgical technology and important pharmacological advances have permitted transplantation to extend the lives of individuals. Perhaps in no other discipline is there as great a need for multidisciplinary dialogue, debate and approach to patient care. Along with the medical advances, the complexities of the biopsychosocial aspects have come to the forefront of research in this field. The issues raised throughout this book should serve as a useful introduction to important clinical issues such as: + organ donation; + ethical ...
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Coping with Physical Illness:Vol. 2:New Perspectives (Environmental Science Research)
from: Springer
: :The field of transplantation has grown significantly in the last 25 years. Improved surgical technology and important pharmacological advances have permitted transplantation to extend the lives of individuals. Perhaps in no other discipline is there as great a need for multidisciplinary dialogue, debate and approach to patient care. Along with the medical advances, the complexities of the biopsychosocial aspects have come to the forefront of research in this field. The issues raised throughout this book should serve as a useful introduction to important clinical issues such as: + organ donation; + ethical ...
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