Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wickramasekera, Ian E

Titel

Clinical Behavioral Medicine : Some Concepts and Procedures

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1. What Kinds of People Are at High Risk to Develop Chronic Stress-Related Symptoms? -- 2. Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Its Cutting Edges: Biofeedback, Behavior Therapy, and Hypnosis -- 3. Hypnosis: Scientific Status and Clinical Relevance -- 4. Crocks, Quacks, and Shrinks -- 5. What Is the Placebo Effect and How Does It Work? -- 6. Initial Patient Interview -- 7. Psychophysiological Role Induction or the Trojan Horse Procedure -- 8. The Diagnosis and Psychophysiological Management of Chronic Pain and Anxiety -- 9. High-Risk Profile: Assessment, Patient Feedback, and Therapy Planning -- 10. Self-Hypnosis and the Common Components of Other Stress-Reduction Techniques: A Theory -- Appendixes -- A. Problems with Hypnosis and Crucial Clinical Concepts -- B. Brief Procedures to Assess Hypnotic Ability and Attitude -- C. Unobtrusive Procedures -- Low Frontal EMG and Eyes Closed -- EEG Alpha Density and Hypnotic Ability -- The Conjugate Lateral Eye Movement Test -- Experience Inventori
• This book is an effort to integrate some clinical observations, theoretical concepts, and promising clinical procedures that relate psychological variables to physiological variables. My primary emphasis is on what psychological and behavioral concepts and procedures are most likely to enable us to influence physiological functions. The book covers questions that have fascinated me and with which I have struggled in daily clinical practice. What types of people are most at risk for physical disorders or dysfunctions? Why do some people present psychosocial conflicts somatically and others behaviorally? What is the placebo effect and how does it work? How do you arrange the conditions to alter maladaptive belief systems that contribute to psychopathology and pathophysiology? Do beliefs have biological consequences? When I was in private clinical practice, and even today in my medical school clinical practice situation, I set aside one day each week to puzzle over the theoretical questions that my clinical experience generates. Often isolating these underlying theoretical questions provides guidance into the most relevant empirical literature. I have found that this weekly ritual, which I started in private practice many years ago, appears to increase my clinical efficacy or at least makes clinical work more exciting. I find the unexamined clinical practice hard to endure. Kurt Lewin once said, "There is nothing so practical as a good theory