Psychodynamic perspectives on sickness and health

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Psychodynamic perspectives on sickness and health

edited by Paul Raphael Dubenstein and Joseph M. Masling

American Psychological Association, c2000

1st ed

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Sickness and health

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume heralds a timely integration of psychodynamic thinking with health psychology. The authors explore the emotional dynamics of health and illness by combining vibrant psychodynamic theory with rigorous empirical study. Chapter authors explore within this context such areas as cardiovascular psychology, dreaming and illness, the assumed necessity of working through memories of traumatic experiences, and illness and mortality following bereavement. Throughout, the relationships among loss, personality and physical illness as well as the health benefits of emotional expression are explored. This book exemplifies the novel, creative and bold thinking that occurs when health psychology and psychoanalysis collaborate to understand sickness and health.

Table of Contents

  • Psychoanalysis and Health Psychology, Paul R. Duberstein and Joseph M. Masling
  • From Oral Fixation to Object Relations - Changing Perspectives on the Psychodynamics of Interpersonal Dependency and Illness, Robert F. Bornstein
  • Heart and Unconscious Mind - a Psychoanalytic Examination of Cardiovascular Psychology, Richard M. O'Neill
  • Dreaming and Illness, Milton Kramer
  • Scriptotherapy - the Effects of Writing About Traumatic Events, Joshua M. Smythe and Melanie A. Greenberg
  • The Assumed Necessity of Working Through Memories of Traumatic Experiences, George A. Bonanno and Stacey Kaltman
  • Death Can Be Hazardous to Your Health - Adaptive and Ironic Consequences of Defences Against the Terror of Death, Jamie Arndt et al
  • Death Cannot Keep Us Apart - Mortality Following Bereavement, Paul R. Duberstein.

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