A practical, compassionate, and humorous look at behavioral/psychological strategies in caring for patients. Covers stress, chronic pain, depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, sleep disorders, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and developmental stages of life. Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: To Doctors Who Want To Be Healers Section I: Overview, Models, and Mechanisms of Intervention Chapter 2. The Biopsychosocial Model of Health Care: More Than Just a Bag of Bones Chapter 3. Learning Principles: The "Guts" of Behavioral Medicine Chapter 4. Psychodynamic Psychology: Black Boxes and Band-aids Chapter 5. Doctor-Patient Communication: Healing Words Section II: Clinical Problems Chapter 7. Stress, Fear and Illness: Tigers, Caves and Coping Chapter 8. Chronic Pain: When the Medicine Chest Fails Chapter 9. Depression: A Car Without Gas and Nowhere to Go Chapter 10. Suicide: "Oh God, Is There No One to Listen?" Chapter 11. Alcoholism: The Power of Poison Chapter 12. Drug Abuse: The "Highs" That Bind Chapter 13. Disorders of Sleep: Cortical Cobwebs and Calamities Chapter 14. The Tragedies of Domestic Violence: Broken Hearts Chapter 15. Sexual Abuse: The Intimate Wound Section III: Developmental Stages Chapter 16. Infancy: Welcome to Our Planet Chapter 17. Childhood: The Wonder Years Chapter 18. Adolescence: Taming the Tasmanian Devil Chapter 19. Young Adulthood: Stretching for the Brass Ring Chapter 20. Middle Age: "#@*&%$!!@#!*&%!" Chapter 21. Old Age: Going Gently into that Good Night Chapter 22. Dying and Death: The Cocoon and the Butterfly Index |