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Illness as a Work of Thought: A Foucauldian Perspective of Psychosomatics (International Library of Sociology)

Monica Greco

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This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness and modernity.

Imagination and Healing (Imagery and Human Development Series)

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The volume explores in depth the vast healing potential of a fundamental human gift. In addition to providing a historical perspective of the importance accorded to imagination in the disease and healing processes, the book furnishes theoretical, empirical, and clinical evidence of the efficacy of imagery in the healing of a wide variety of health problems including stress, pain, cancer, depression, phobias, skin disorders, and sexual dysfunctions.

In Search of Coronary-prone Behavior: Beyond Type A

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In Search of Cornoary-Prone Behavior: Beyond Type A provides a methodology of enormous potential for examining the relationship between behavioral variables and basic pathophysiological mechanisms. They discuss the history of Type-A behavior pattern (TABP) as it relates to coronary heart disease (CHD).

Students and researchers with an interest in the correlation between personality and coronary behavior, as well as behavioral medicine, social and health psychology, and the neurosciences.

Interaction Between Mental and Physical Illness: Needed Areas of Research

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Liaison Psychiatry: Mental Health Problems in the General Hospital

Joan Gomez

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Life Change, Life Events, and Illness: Selected Papers

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A pioneer in the field of behavioral medicine, the late Thomas H. Holmes developed a set of scales that measured the impact of life changes and events on a person's health, particularly stress-related disorders. This volume collects for the first time the key research studies that emanated from the Holmes laboratory at the University of Washington from 1957 through 1981. Designed to serve as a reference book and a resource for students and scholars interested in life change research, Life Change, Life Events, and Illness provides ready access to the historical record of the Holmes psychosocial laboratory. For archival purposes, editorial revisions have been undertaken only to correct errata, update references, and establish stylistic conformity. The first chapter, written specifically for this volume, places the work of the Holmes laboratory in historical context, probes the beginning of Holme's research hypothesis in studies of the physiology of emotions, and outlines the direction of his research program. The first group of readings review the development, testing, and validation of three innovative research instruments: The Social Readjustment Rating Scale, the Seriousness of Illness Rating Scale, and the Schedule of Recent Experience. Subsequent chapters reconstruct the initial applications of methodologies developed by Holmes and his colleagues, culminating in the formulation of a paradigm for the relationship of life change and illness susceptibility. The final papers illustrate the realms into which life change research expanded in the last decade of Holme's tenure at the laboratory.

Mass Psychogenic Illness: A Social Psychological Analysis (Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology)

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A great starting point on this subject! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Colligan, et. al., have assembled a collection of articles about mass psychogenic illness, formerly known as mass hysteria. The updated name connotes a shift from the victim to an external agent as the cause of the action.

The articles encompass the wide range of historic cases, from J.F.C. Hecker's brilliant studies on the dancing manias of the Middle Ages through a mention of an early Industrial Age hysteria and the Phantom Anesthetist of Mattoon, up to the publication of the book in 1982.

This volume is an ideal starting point to study this fascinating subject.

The Medical Value of Psychoanalysis (Classics in Psychoanalysis, Monograph 2)

Franz Gabriel Alexander

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Mind-Body Problems: Psychotherapy with Psychosomatic Disorders

Janet Schumacher Finell

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The opening paper profitably links psychosomatic disorders to alexithymia, the absence or deadening of feeling, the inability to identify or express emotion. Alexithymic individuals are particularly prone to disease as a result of the faulty processing of emotions that leads to cognitive deficit in coping with stressful affects. Animated case reports on specific disorders--anorexia, arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, even (speculatively) miscarriage--balance consideration of developmental questions and treatment issues (transference/countertransference) and techniques. From a historical essay on Freud's view of the mind-body connection to explorations of the complicated role of trauma and PTSD, the contributions to Dr. Finell's collection demonstrate intellectual energy and clinical creativity.

Motherhood and Sexuality

Marie Langer

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Empathy, respect, and a lot of heart for the female experience 5 out of 5 stars.
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I first read this book during my college years (in the late 70's) I own it since and loved it ever since, to this day. It has been my companion and informed me in my early realitionships, pregnancy, motherhood, and parenting of a girl child. I resonate with every bit of it and appreciate the empathy and soulfulness of the treatment.
I have to say that I'm familiar with and appreciate both the psychonalyitic framing and experience. I also spent my early adult life in Buenos Aires, where the author lived and wrote this book (which I own in the original language). I'm coming back to this book with my daughter in puberty and myself looking for a second child in middle age.
As a science student in Buenos Aires that became a university professor in the US, I also cherish the author's understanding that a full life for a woman has both room for relationship, motherhood, parenting, and a fulfilling job.
This is my most beloved book. I gave it to my yoga instructor, an adorable woman whose day job is in children's mental health care, and whose education is in psychoanalysis.

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As illuminating today as it was when it was first released, Marie Langer's work represents a departure from mainstream psychoanalytic approaches to female sexuality. Anticipating contemporary feminist psychoanlaytic concerns, she argues that economic institutions and cultural values must be altered to permit women full participation in creative and productive activities if women are to accept their maternal role without conflict or resentment. Within tnis context, Langer's book presents a rare exploration of psychosomatic disorders related to female reproductive life.