Title | Psychosomatic Medicine [electronic resource] : Past and Future / edited by George N. Christodoulou |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5454-3 |
Descript | XV, 380 p. 16 illus. online resource |
Holistic Concepts of Illness in Ancient Greece and in Contemporary Medicine -- The Semantics of Whole-Person Care -- Doctor-Patient Relationship -- โEmotionsโ 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 Weizsรคcker (1886โ1957) and German Psychosomatic Medicine -- Psychosomatics and Medical History -- Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical History: Frederic Chopin โ 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 1978โ79 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 โ 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 -- 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 โPsychosomaticโ? -- 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