Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Somatization: body language
  • Challenges in doctor-patient communication
  • The key question in clinical practice: who controls what?
  • Stress: the broader context
  • Stress and immune function
  • Clinical consequences of stress
  • Interplay of mind and body in medical practice: pathophysiological mechanisms
  • Interplay of mind and body in medical practice: the placebo response
  • Chronic or recurrent pain syndrome
  • Visceral pain syndromes
  • Panic attacks: the great mimic
  • Cardiovascular changes in anxiety: a lesson in integrative psychophysiology
  • Respiratory effects of anxiety: hyperventilation
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Depression in the medical clinic
  • Drug treatment of affective disorders
  • General principles of stress management
  • Behavioral intervention in stressed states
  • Defining mind-body medicine.