Michael. E Hyland

The Origins of Health and Disease

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrates findings in health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and psychotherapy to provide a new explanation for health and disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895392
• ISBN-10: 0521895391
• Artikelnr.: 32716347

Autorenporträt

Michael E. Hyland is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Plymouth. For the first 15 years of his career he worked as a theoretical psychologist and helped set up the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. He went on to develop an interest in health psychology, specialising in respiratory disease. He is the author of several quality of life questionnaires and has published over 100 articles in psychology and medical journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The two philosophies: health, disease, medicine and psychotherapy; 2.
The body's mind: psychoneuroimmunology, stress and adaptive response; 3.
Personality, disease and the meaning of infornet dysregulation; 4. Networks
and their properties; 5. The causes of dysregulation: associative learning,
food intolerance and the effects of stress throughout the lifespan; 6. The
causes of dysregulation: supervised learning, repetitive strain injury,
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and
depression; 7. The causes of dysregulation: asthma and precursors to
specific disease; 8. Three different types of psychologically mediated
therapy: placebos and the art of medicine, psychotherapy and complementary
and alternative medicine; 9. Therapeutic mechanisms; 10. Finding the
pattern: health in modern society; 11. Infornet theory in perspective.