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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783720003321

Autore

Myslobodsky Michael S

Titolo

The Fallacy Of Mother's Wisdom [[electronic resource] ] : A Critical Perspective On Health Psychology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004

ISBN

1-281-87709-3

9786611877095

981-256-568-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 p.)

Disciplina

616/.001/9

Soggetti

Behavioral Medicine

Clinical health psychology

Medicine and psychology

Psychotherapy

Medicine

Behavioral Sciences

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Health Occupations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-442) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 The Point of Departure: The Pillars of the Health Psychology Edifice; 2 'Bad Boys' and Prenatal Programming; 3 Between Psychiatry and Medicine: Illness in Search of a Place; 4 The Deadly Trio; 5 Collective Exaggerated Emotions; 6 A Complementary Point of View; 7 Holistic Philosophy and a Recipe for Causative Goulash; 8 If Health Psychology is the Answer, What was the Question?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Health psychology is an offer of help, an effort to understand how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health and illness. As one of the fast-growing sub-specialties, it has now outstripped other divisions of psychology in terms of excitement in the public eye.