Psychosomatic Medicine

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Holistic Concepts of Illness in Ancient Greece and in Contemporary Medicine
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   Chapter 2 The Semantics of Whole-Person Care
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   Chapter 3 Doctor-Patient Relationship
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   Chapter 4 “Emotions” and Difficulties in Teaching and Communication
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   Chapter 5 The Mind-Body Problem in Philosophy
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   Chapter 6 Mind-Matter Relations: Do They Matter in Psychosomatics?
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   Chapter 7 Psychosomatic Concepts in Writings of Ancient Greek Philosophers (VIth to IIIrd Cent. B.C.)
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   Chapter 8 Historical Insights of Psychosomatic Medicine in Heidelberg
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    Chapter 9 Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957) and German Psychosomatic Medicine
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    Chapter 10 Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical History: Frederic Chopin — A Psychosomatic Case ?
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    Chapter 11 Personality Characteristics in Psychosomatic Illness
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    Chapter 12 Family Interaction and Somatic Illness: Implications from the Finnish Adoptive Family Study
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    Chapter 13 Life Events as Triggering and Formative Agents in Physical Disease
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    Chapter 14 Occupational Correlates of the Type a Behaviour Pattern
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    Chapter 15 Psychophysiological Models of Psychosomatic Illness
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    Chapter 16 Psychosomatic Approach of Norwegian Health Services
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    Chapter 17 The Psychosomatic Approach and the Health Services in West Germany
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    Chapter 18 The Psychosomatic Approach in France
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    Chapter 19 Influence of the Psychosomatic Approach in the Planning and Work of the Health Service in the United Kingdom
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    Chapter 20 Psychosomatic Approach and the Greek Health Services
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    Chapter 21 Psychosomatic Approach and Health Services in the USA: A View from 1986
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    Chapter 22 General Hospital Psychiatry: Referral Source and the Outcome of Treatment
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    Chapter 23 Differential-Diagnostical and Management Difficulties in 3.354 Psychosomatic/Psychiatric Patients Referred to a Psychosomatic Department in a General Hospital Setting
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    Chapter 24 Patient Information and Treatment Outcome
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    Chapter 25 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: Past and Present
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    Chapter 26 The Role of the Obstetric Liaison Psychiatrist
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    Chapter 27 The Effectiveness of a Ward-Based Nurse Counselling Service for Mastectomy Patients
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    Chapter 28 The Future of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
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    Chapter 29 Prevalence of Psychosomatic Illness in Greece: Two Nation-Wide Cross-Sectional Studies in 1978–79 and 1984
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    Chapter 30 Epidemiological Study of the Relationship between Psychological Problems and Somatic Factors in the Pre-School Children
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    Chapter 31 Stress and Cardiac Mortality: Evidence from Earthquakes in Greece
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    Chapter 32 Gonadal Hormones and Heart Rate as an Acute Emotional Stress Response
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    Chapter 33 Autonomic Reactivity and Stress in Adolescent Athletes
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    Chapter 34 Psychosocial Stress and Psychosomatic Reactions
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    Chapter 35 Psychoneuroendocrine Testing: Strategy and Attitude
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    Chapter 36 Psychoendocrinology of Hyperprolactinemia
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    Chapter 37 Typical Competitive Mental Attitude in Microprolactinomas: Comparison with the Functional Hyperprolactinaemia
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    Chapter 38 Gender-Related Psychoendocrine Coping Mechanisms of Back Pain Patients
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    Chapter 39 Chronic Low Back Pain: A Psychiatric Assessment of 72 Patients
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    Chapter 40 Psychosomatic Issues in Chronic Pain Syndromes
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    Chapter 41 Extent of Coronary Disease in Patients with Atypical Chest Pain; Are Psychological Variables Helpful?
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    Chapter 42 Clinical and Personality Contributors to Alexithymia in Neurotic Patients
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    Chapter 43 Somatization as a Transcultural Problem
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    Chapter 44 Psychiatric Disorders and Differences in Muscular Pattern
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    Chapter 45 Longitudinal Studies of Sleep and Hormonal Secretion in Male Anorectic Patients: Preliminary Observations
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    Chapter 46 The Bulimic Obese: Treatment Response and Long Term Outcome
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    Chapter 47 An Investigation into the Effects of Respiratory Feedback (RFB) on Blood Pressure and General Status in Essential Hypertension
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    Chapter 48 The Concept that Psychological Factors are Important in the Pathogenesis of Arterial Hypertension May Affect Adversely Patient Compliance
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    Chapter 49 Psychological Factors in Diabetes Mellitus
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    Chapter 50 Effect of Relaxation Therapy on the Control of Diabetes Mellitus
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    Chapter 51 A Longitudinal Psychosomatic Study of Patients with Vertigo
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    Chapter 52 Psychosocial Factors in Bronchial Asthma and Allergy in Childhood: A Prospective Study
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    Chapter 53 Is the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Really “Psychosomatic”?
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    Chapter 54 Psychosomatic Tradition in Cancer from Antiquity till the End of the Nineteenth Century
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    Chapter 55 Cancer Prevention: A Multi-Dimensional Model
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    Chapter 56 The Relevance of Tissue Characterization in Brain C.A.T. Scans to Psychosomatic Diagnosis
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    Chapter 57 Current Psychosomatic Research
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    Chapter 58 Cognitive Aspects of Psychosomatic Education