Richard L. Kradin

Pathologies of the Mind/Body Interface (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the Curious Domain of the Psychosomatic Disorders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unlike other texts on the subject, this book aims to provide a well-integrated approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the pervasive effects of the mind/body splitting that lead to somatoform disorders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136193910
• Artikelnr.: 38253411

Autorenporträt

Richard L. Kradin, MD, is a practicing Pulmonologist and Psychoanalyst at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Associate Professor of both Medicine and Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of the Dyspnea Clinic at MGH, and also past Research Director of the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston, MA. He is the author of The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing (Routledge 2008), and of approximately 200 articles in medical literature. His research interests include psychological aspects of pulmonary disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and the role of early attachment disturbances in the development of psychosomatic symptoms and placebo responses.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Basic Concepts 2. Hysteria: The Psychosomatic Disorder Par
Excellence 3. Somatophobia 4. Mind and its Development 5. Stress 6. The
Placebo Response 7. The Psychosomatic Disorders 8. Psychosomatic Disorders:
Living on the Edge 9. Treating the Psychosomatic Disorders 10. Conclusion