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Integrates psychodynamic thinking with health psychology. For mental health practitioners, physicians, and researchers. Explores theory, application, and future research directions in such topics as interpersonal dependency and the onset and course of illness, fear of death, and effects of writing about traumatic events.

Contributors

ix

Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Health Psychology

xiii

Paul Raphael Duberstein

Joseph M. Masling

From Oral Fixation to Object Relations: Changing Perspectives on the Psychodynamics of Interpersonal Dependency and Illness

3

(36)

Robert F. Bornstein

Psychoanalytic Health Psychology

5

(3)

The Evolution of Dependency: From Oral Fixation to Object Relations

8

(8)

Negative Effects of Dependency

16

(5)

Positive Effects of Dependency

21

(4)

Discussion

25

(4)

Conclusion

29

(10)

Heart And Unconscious Mind: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Cardiovascular Psychology

39

(34)

Richard M. O'Neill

Overview of Coronary Heart Disease

43

(2)

Psychoanalytic Theory

45

(6)

Type A Behavior Pattern

51

(3)

Hostility: Does the Hating Mind Kill the Heart?

54

(1)

Empirical Psychoanalytic Research

55

(6)

A Psychodynamic Context

61

(12)

Dreaming And Illness

73

(48)

Milton Kramer

History

74

(1)

The Mind--Body Problem

75

(1)

A Psychodynamic (Freudian) View of Dreaming and the Dream Initiation Process

75

(2)

Experimental and Clinical Studies

77

(1)

An Experimentally Based Theory of Dream Function

77

(13)

A Biology for Dreaming

90

(1)

Major Mental Illness

91

(4)

Physical Illness

95

(18)

Conclusion

113

(8)

Scriptotherapy: The Effects of Writing About Traumatic Events

121

(44)

Joshua M. Smyth

Melanie A. Greenberg

Abreaction Theories

123

(8)

Psychodynamic--Cognitive Processing Theories

131

(6)

Contribution of Theories to Understand Trauma and Implications for Intervention

137

(2)

Writing as a Form of Treatment for Stressful or Traumatic Experiences

139

(14)

Conclusion

153

(1)

Future Research Directions

154

(11)

The Assumed Necessity of Working Through Memories of Traumatic Experiences

165

(36)

George A. Bonanno

Stacey Kaltman

Cultural and Historic Assumptions

166

(6)

The Brain

172

(7)

Experimental Studies

179

(10)

Conclusion: From Working Through to Working Toward

189

(12)

Death Can be Hazardous to Your Health: Adaptive and Ironic Consequences of Defenses Against The Terror of Death

201

(58)

Jamie Arndt

Jamie L. Goldenberg

Jeff Greenberg

Tom Pyszczynski

Sheldon Solomon

Terror Management Theory

204

(8)

Empirical Assessment of Terror Management Hypotheses

212

(5)

Theoretical Refinements

217

(7)

Body and Soul: Implications for Mental Health and Physical Well-Being

224

(21)

Conclusion

245

(14)

Death Cannot Keep Us Apart: Mortality Following Bereavement

259

(74)

Paul Raphael Duberstein

Psychological Effects of Bereavement

264

(12)

Mortality Risk

276

(9)

Immune Function

285

(9)

Stress Theory Is Inadequate: The Need for Alternative Explanations

294

(1)

Life-Course Theories

295

(18)

Conclusion

313

(20)

Author Index

333

(18)

Subject Index

351

(12)

About The Editors

363

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Psychodynamic Perspectives on Sickness and Health

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