Coping and complaining : attachment and the language of dis-ease / Simon R. Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkinson, Simon R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical health psychology.

Sick--Pschology.

Sick.

Adjustment (Psychology).

Attachment behavior.

Sick Role.

Attitude to Health.

Object Attachment.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Sick Role.

Attitude to Health.

Object Attachment.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 318 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2003.

Contents:

1 'I'm ill; you're sick' 1

Illness 5

Sickness 6

Disease and disorder 7

Predicament 9

Illness behaviour and strategic symptoms 10

Attachment paradigm 11

A psychosocial classification of disease 13

Why, how and what? 16

2 Genes, brain and the internal milieu: Our limits and resources 20

Family influences and brain growth 23

Emotions and neurotransmitters: the foundations for feeling ill 28

Brain localisation and the somato-sensory areas 37

Stress - tipping the balance 40

Attachment and the developing brain 44

3 Learning and memory: A basis for understanding development and change in the face of threat and danger 52

Memory 53

Information presentation to memory 67

Social development 72

4 The ideal patient: The 'balanced' type B attachment strategies 89

Attachment and the danger of disease 92

Adulthood and the balanced (secure) type B classification 98

Childhood and the balanced (secure) type B classification 108

The ideal illness language 113

5 'I'm OK; don't worry about me.' The 'dismissing' type A attachment strategies 118

Adulthood, parenting and the dismissing type A classification 119

Childhood and the dismissing type A classification 136

Risk, danger and insecurity 140

The dismissing cognitive illness dialogue 149

Some provisional implications for clinical practice and health promotion: compliance and collaboration 160

6 'My pain is really terrible. What are you going to do about it?': The 'preoccupied' type C attachment strategies, and other classifications 164

Adulthood, parenting and the preoccupied type C classification 166

Childhood and the preoccupied type C classification 194

Risk and preoccupation 197

The preoccupied affective illness dialogue 199

Some provisional implications for clinical practice and health promotion: collaboration and conflict 205

7 Ambiguous symptoms and the attachment strategies of health professionals 212

8 Goal-corrected partnerships for health 246

Healthcare systems 247

Gender 268

Culture 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-312) and index.

ISBN:

1583911693

1583911707

OCLC:

51041188