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The Healer Within: 2The New Medicine of Mind and Body

Steven Locke, Douglas Colligan

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This Book can only help. NOT Junk Science 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

When I first heard about this book from a friend, I thought that it was most likely 'Junk Science'. I was very happy to find that it is truly a valuable book. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is facing a serious illness. I think it is important to note that this book is not an alternative medicine philosophy book. I prefer to base my scientific beliefs on objective evidence

The healing so needed 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The need for the subject is enormous. We get so contributed by the book. We believe in respecting the human as a whole entity. The body reflects so much of our being that we need to understand and assess the meaning of the book. Let hope that an updated book will come soon. The conecction of mind and body reflects what is going on with the sociaty body and we need it very very much. Thank you.

Editorial Review:

Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Steven Locke and Omni magazine editor Douglas Colligan clearly present a complete study of the new science of psychoneuro-immunology that shows astounding ways in which emotions and attitudes can affect health and treatment of illness. HC: Dutton.

Women in Medicine: Career and Life Management

Marjorie A. Bowman, Erica Frank, Deborah Allen

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New England Journal of Medicine review 5 out of 5 stars.
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The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol 347, #18, pg. 1459; 10/31/2002) says that this book provides "information not readily available elsewhere" and that it is a "valuable book for younger women physicians struggling to make a life for themselves".

Editorial Review:

In this newly revised, expanded and updated edition, the authors have provided a definitive resource about and for women physicians. From statistical data regarding practicing women physicians in the U.S. and abroad, minorities and gay/lesbian physicians, to practical advice on coping with stress, WOMEN IN MEDICINE: CAREER AND LIFE MANAGEMENT, 3rd Edition, is an exceedingly useful and insightful volume for understanding and managing the issues faced by women physicians in both their professional and personal lives.

Emotions, Stress, and Health

Alex J. Zautra

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Integrating stress and health in theory and practice 5 out of 5 stars.
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Zautra presents an entertaining and readable picture of how and why our feelings hurt and help us. This text integrates the cutting edge findings in health psychology in a package usable for scholar, practitioner -- or simply the person curious about the important relationships between health, feelings, and our complex environments. Practical implications as well as the latest revelations from science balance this important new work. Zautra not only tells us how and why we get sick, but more importantly -- how to be well and enjoy.

Editorial Review:

In this volume, Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments of emotional intensity. Zautra masterfully integrates research and theory on emotion and stress, identifying a unique and important role for stressful life events. He offers new insights into how stress and emotions can influence health and illness and demonstrates the wide applicability of this perspective across domains of love and marriage, work, aging, and community. By reviewing research on chronic pain, depression, child abuse, and addiction, Zautra also provides new insights into clinical problems.

Integrated Treatment for Psychiatric Disorders (Review of Psychiatry)

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More than any other professional activity, integrated treatmentAthe simultaneous use of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy to treat patients with mental disordersAdefines the field of psychiatry and distinguishes it from other mental health disciplines and medical specialties. This volume represents cutting-edge discussionsAincluding frequent use of clinical vignettes by skilled and senior cliniciansAof the clinical indications, challenges, and approaches of this most common type of psychiatric intervention. Beginning with an overview of the scientific literature supporting integrated treatment, including a fascinating discussion on how patients attribute meanings to medications and how these meanings affect treatment compliance, subsequent chapters address these topics: -Theoretical support for integrative treatmentAdespite a legacy of conflict about the combined use of psychodynamic psychotherapy and medication. Suggests that practitioners move away from dualistic thinking by focusing on the neurobiological aspects of psychotherapy and explores the concept of sequential treatment. -Techniques for providing integrative treatment for patients with borderline personality disorderAespecially timely in light of the soon-to-be-adopted APA Guideline on the treatment of this disorder, which specifically advocates integrated treatment. -Techniques for providing integrative treatment for patients with substance abuse disorderAan area marked by intense controversy between physicians and nonmedical addiction therapists about the appropriate role of medications. Reviews three leading psychotherapiesAtwelve-step facilitation, motivational enhancement therapy, and relapse preventionAand discusses 11 important goals in the use of psychotherapy for opioid, nicotine, alcohol, and cocaine addictions. -Methods for enhancing patient compliance and adherenceAsince more than 50% of patients fail to follow medication instructions. Provides clear techniques for effective intervention through cognitive therapy. -The benefits and challenges of split treatmentAin which the psychiatrist manages patient medication and another mental health professional conducts psychotherapyAusing clinical vignettes to demonstrate practical and effective interventions. This increasingly common arrangement is favored by managed care organizations, which perceive it as more cost effective, despite scientific evidence to the contrary. Enhanced by charts, graphs, and illustrations, this up-to-date review will find a broad audience among psychiatric practitioners and residents, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, substance abuse counselors, and case managers in community psychiatry. By offering the very latest in its field, this comprehensive volume will also prove especially valuable to students of cognitive behavioral therapy and psychopharmacology.

Behavior, Health, and Environmental Stress

Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

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Health Psychology

Howard S. Friedman, M. Robin Dimatteo

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For courses in Health Psychology and Health. This classic exploration of health psychology explains the timeless wisdom uncovered by psychology and other social sciences about the meaning of health, illness, and optimal health care. Written in an engaging, accessible style, it provides a conceptual integration of the most important relevant research of the whole 20th century, as well as discussing the most important recent findings--but without becoming a complicated research compendium. Throughout, the biopsychosocial health psychology model is explicitly contrasted and compared to the traditional biomedical model.

Physical Disability: A Psychological Approach

Beatrice Ann Posner Wright

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International Perspectives on Self-Regulation and Health (The Springer Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine)

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Pregnancy Loss: Medical Therapeutics and Practical Considerations

James R., Jr. Woods

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The Missing Moment

Robert Pollack

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In THE MISSING MOMENT a distinguished molecular biologist explores the nature of time and argues for a radical rethinking of how time affects our sense of self, our mortality, and the future of science and medicine. Only in the past few years have we learned enough about the brain for this remarkable book to be written. We know now that our brains continually filter the present through memories and emotions of the past. In fact, strictly speaking, we live in the past: since it takes the brain a second to process perceptions, what we think is the present actually happened a second ago. We also know where and how the unconscious operates and how painful memories are repressed; repression is not a psychological defect but an evolutionary necessity for our species. All thought, even the most rational, is permeated with unconscious feelings, fears, and emotions. Scientists, like the rest of us, make choices for reasons they don't understand. Thus the direction of scientific research is driven by private demons, not public needs. We can see this in medical science, where doctors develop the tools to diagnose genetic diseases they cannot cure, bringing pain rather than comfort to patients. Today science can do more good than ever before, and it can also do more harm. The time has come for scientists and others to abandon the notion that there is any such thing as the disinterested pursuit of truth. Instead, they must strive for a therapeutic self-awareness of their unconscious agendas and work for larger goals than personal immortality.