Psychosomatic Medicine Past and Future
This book contains selected contributions to the 16th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, held in Athens from September 6 to 11, 1986. The ~t of psychosomatic medicine was one of the two basic topics of the meeting. We thought that, since this topic has a touch of history in it, it would...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
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Table of Contents:
- The Concept that Psychological Factors are Important in the Pathogenesis of Arterial Hypertension May Affect Adversely Patient Compliance
- Diabetes
- Psychological Factors in Diabetes Mellitus
- Effect of Relaxation Therapy on the Control of Diabetes Mellitus
- Vertigo
- A Longitudinal Psychosomatic Study of Patients with Vertigo
- Asthma
- Psychosocial Factors in Bronchial Asthma and Allergy in Childhood: A Prospective Study
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Is the Irritable Bowel Syndrome really “Psychosomatic”?
- Cancer
- Psychosomatic Tradition in Cancer from Antiquity till the End of the 19th Century
- Cancer Prevention: A Multi-Dimensional Model
- Brain C.A.T. Scans
- The Relevance of Tissue Characterization in Brain C.A.T. Scans to Psychosomatic Diagnosis
- Psychosomatic Research
- Current Psychosomatic Research
- Psychosomatic Education
- Cognitive Aspects of Psychosomatic Education
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Holistic Concepts of Illness in Ancient Greece and in Contemporary Medicine
- The Semantics of Whole-Person Care
- Doctor-Patient Relationship
- “Emotions” and Difficulties in Teaching and Communication
- The Mind-Body Problem
- The Mind-Body Problem in Philosophy
- Mind-Matter Relations. Do They Matter in Psychosomatics?
- Historical Aspects
- Psychosomatic Concepts in Writings of Ancient Greek Philosophers (VI th to III rd Cent. B. C.)
- Historical Insights of Psychosomatic Medicine in Heidelberg
- Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957) and German Psychosomatic Medicine
- Psychosomatics and Medical History
- Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical History: Frederic Chopin — A Psychosomatic Case?
- Papers on General Topics
- Personality Characteristics in Psychosomatic Illness
- Family Interaction and Somatic Illness: Implications from the Finnish Adoptive Family Study
- Life Events as Triggering and Formative Agents in Physical Disease
- Occupational Correlates of the Type A Behaviour pattern
- Psychophysiological Models of Psychosomatic Illness
- Psychosomatic Approach and Health Services
- Psychosomatic Approach of Norwegian Health Services
- The Psychosomatic Approach and the Health Services in West Germany
- The Psychosomatic Approach in France
- Influence of the Psychosomatic Approach in the Planning and Work of the Health Services in the United Kingdom
- Psychosomatic Approach and the Greek Health Services
- Psychosomatic Approach and Health Services in the USA: A View from 1986
- General Hospital Psychiatry
- General Hospital Psychiatry: Referral Source and the Outcome of Treatment
- Differential-Diagnostical and Management Difficulties in 3.354 Psychosomatic/Psychiatric Patients Referred to a Psychosomatic Department in a General Hospital Setting
- Patient Information and Treatment Outcome
- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Past and Present
- The Role of the Obstetric Liaison Psychiatrist
- The Effectiveness of a Ward-Based Nurse Counselling Service for Mastectomy Patients
- The Future of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Epidemiology
- Prevalence of Psychosomatic Illness in Greece: Two Nation-Wide Cross-Sectional Studies in 1978–79 and 1984
- Epidemiological Study of the Relationship between Psychological Problems and Somatic Factors in the Pre-School Children
- Stress
- Stress and Cardiac Mortality: Evidence from Earthquakes in Greece
- Gonadal Hormones and Heart Rate as an Acute Emotional Stress Response
- Autonomic Reactivity and Stress in Adolescent Athletes
- Psychosocial Stress and Psychosomatic Reactions
- Psychoendocrinology
- Psychoneuroendocrine Testing: Strategy and Attitude
- Psychoendocrinology of Hyperprolactinemia
- Typical Competitive Mental Attitude in Microprolactinomas: Comparison with the Functional Hyperprolactinaemia
- Pain
- Gender-Related Psychoendocrine Coping Mechanisms of Back Pain Patients
- Chronic Low Back Pain: A Psychiatric Assessment of 72 Patients
- Psychosomatic Issues in Chronic Pain Syndromes
- Extent of Coronary Disease in Patients with Atypical Chest Pain; Are Psychological Variables Helpful?
- Alexithymia
- Clinical and Personality Contributors to Alexithymia in Neurotic Patients
- Somatization
- Somatization as a Transcultural Problem
- Muscular Pattern
- Psychiatric Disorders and Differences in Muscular Pattern
- Anorexia — Bulimia
- Longitudinal Studies of Sleep and Hormonal Secretion in Male Anorectic Patients: Preliminary Observations
- The Bulimic Obese: Treatment Response and Long Term Outcome
- Hypertension
- An Investigation into the Effects of Respiratory Feedback (RFB) on Blood Pressure and General Status in Essential Hypertension