The Origins of Health and Disease

by Michael E. Hyland

• ISBN13: 9780521895392
• ISBN10: 0521895391
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Some phenomena in medicine and psychology remain unexplained by current theory. Chronic fatigue syndrome, repetitive strain injury and irritable bowel syndrome, for example, are all diseases or syndromes that cannot be explained in terms of a physiological abnormality. In this intriguing book, Michael E. Hyland proposes that there is a currently unrecognised type of illness which he calls 'dysregulatory disease'. Hyland shows how such diseases develop and how the communication and art of medicine, good nursing care, complementary medicine and psychotherapy can all act to reduce the dysregulation that leads to dysregulatory disease. The Origins of Health and Disease is a fascinating book that develops a novel theory for understanding health and disease, and demonstrates how this theory is supported by existing data, and how it explains currently unexplained phenomena. Hyland also shows how his theory leads to new testable predictions that, in turn, will lead to further scientific advancement and development.

Author Biography

Michael E. Hyland is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Plymouth. For the first fifteen years of his career, he worked as a theoretical psychologist and helped set up the international Society for Theoretical Psychology. He went on to develop an interest in health psychology, specialising, in respiratory disease. Michael is the author of several quality-of-life questionnaires and has published over 120 articles in psychology and medical journals.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xii
List of boxes	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
The two philosophies: healths disease, medicine and psychotherapy	p. 1
The body's mind: psychoneuroimmunology, stress and adaptive response	p. 30
Personality, disease and the meaning of infornet dysregulation	p. 70
Networks and their properties	p. 113
The causes of dysregulation: associative learning. food intolerance and the effects of stress throughout the lifespan	p. 147
The causes of dysregulation: supervised learning, repetitive strain injury attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression	p. 162
The causes of dysregulation: asthma and precursors to specific disease	p. 194
Three different types of psychologically mediated therapy: placebos and the art of medicine, psychotherapy and complementary and alternative medicine	p. 207
Therapeutic mechanisms	p. 247
Finding the pattern: health in modern society	p. 280
Infornet theory in perspective	p. 304
References	p. 312
Index	p. 339
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