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Psychodynamic Perspectives on Sickness and Health [Hardcover]

Paul Raphael Duberstein (Editor), Joseph M. Masling (Editor)


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1557986681 978-1557986689 June 15, 2000 1
This volume heralds a timely integration of psychodynamic thinking wit h health psychology. The authors explore the emotional dynamics of hea lth and illness by combining psychodynamic theory with rigorous empiri cal study. Chapter authors delve into the theoretical underpinnings, application implications, and future research directions in many areas , such as cardiovascular psychology, dreaming and illness, and illness and mortality following bereavement. Throughout, the relationships a mong loss, personality, and physical illness as well as the health ben efits of emotional expression are explored. The result is a volume th at contributes to ongoing dialogue about mind-body relations and the s tress paradigm of illness, while beginning exciting new conversations relating psychodynamic thought to emerging areas such as psychoneuroim munology.

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  • Hardcover: 363 pages
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (June 15, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1557986681
  • ISBN-13: 978-1557986689
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,086,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mortality following bereavement, grief work assumption, dreaming and illness, nondependent patients, proximal defenses, death accessibility, distal defenses, salience induction, worldview defense, abreaction theory, immune downregulation, following mortality salience, mortality salience effects, cardiac psychology, dependency and illness, dependency strivings, mortality concerns, verbal samples, terror management theory, interpersonal dependency, dependent personality traits, depressed participants, dependency scores, traumatic grief, widowed people
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New York, Journal of Personality, Sigmund Freud, Hogarth Press, Basic Books, Psychological Bulletin, American Journal of Psychiatry, United States, Guilford Press, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, American Psychologist, Archives of General Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, Free Press, Mendes De Leon, British Journal of Psychiatry, Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Plenum Press, Academic Press, American Psychological Association, University of Chicago Press, Early Memory Test, Journal of Gerontology, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
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