Does stress cause psychiatric illness?
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Does stress cause psychiatric illness?
（The Progress in psychiatry series / David Spiegel, series editor, no. 46）
American Psychiatric Press, c1995
- : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Stress continues to play a factor in both the development and exacerbation of psychiatric illnesses. Does Stress Cause Psychiatric Illness? explores this issue by bringing together 20 distinguished contributors, all experts in various psychiatric syndromes.
Scientific yet readable, Does Stress Cause Psychiatric Illness? is a useful guide to clinicians, clinical researchers, and medical students. Each chapter provides new empirical data that relate stress to psychiatric illness and addresses this relationship using up-to-date models. These models:
* differentiate types of stress
* account for differential responses to stress
* account for the interaction of stressors and psychiatric disorders
* address the neurobiology of stress
* provide information on illness prevention strategies
Table of Contents
Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Historical perspective on stress and psychiatric illness. Introduction to a case-control study of life events and other possible psychosocial risk factors for episodes of schizophrenia and major depression. Stress, Dopamine, and schizophrenia: evidence for a stress-diathesis model. Stress and the course of unipolar and bipolar disorders. Relationship of stress to panic disorder: cause or effect? Preventive interventions in the worksite to reduce negative psychiatric consequences of work and family stress.
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