Biological Barriers in Behavioral Medicine (The Springer Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine)

"A "New Looking Glass" for Behavioral Medicine In 1984, John Briggs, a science writer and specialist in interdisciplinary studies teaching at the New School for Social Research, and F. David Peat, a physicist who was for many years a fellow with the National Research Council of Canada, published a book about the revolutions that were taking place in physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and neuƯ rophysiology and about the scientists whose new theories were changing our understanding about the nature of the universe. The title of their book was Looking Glass Universe, after Lewis Carroll's classic story of Alice and her friends, Through the Looking Glass. Briggs and Peat's book is a well-written, challenging volume about human beings and how they think about old problems in new and sometimes startling ways. I mention Briggs and Peat's book only partially because I happen to have a personal interest in the potential applications of new ways of looking at and thinking about nature and data derived from modern physics and systems theory for health psychology and behavioral mediƯ cine (e. g., Schwartz, 1984). In a letter Wolfgang Linden wrote to me on January 23,1987, he shared with me (at my request) his rough thoughts about his personal goals for this book"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Self-Regulation Theory in Behavioral Medicine....Pages 1-12 Biological Barriers in the Treatment of Alcoholism....Pages 13-34 Causes and Effects of Obesity....Pages 35-62 Biobehavioral Approaches to Smoking Control....Pages 63-99 Considerations in the Treatment of Insomnia....Pages 101-140 Self-Regulation and Type A Behavior....Pages 141-162 Biopsychological Barriers to the Behavioral Treatment of Hypertension....Pages 163-191 Psychophysiological Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract....Pages 193-220 Asthma....Pages 221-255 Pain....Pages 257-279 Understanding and Preventing Relapse....Pages 281-320 Back Matter....Pages 321-325