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The fallacy of mother's wisdom : a critical perspective on health psychology / Michael S. Myslobodsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myslobodsky, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical health psychology.
- Medicine and psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (466 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-442) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611877095
- 9781281877093
- 1281877093
- 9789812565686
- 981256568X
- OCLC:
- 475950963
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