Mind/Body Integration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Erik Peper, Sonia Ancoli, Michele Quinn

      Pages 1-4

3. General Overview of Biofeedback: An Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-6

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   2. Learned Control of Physiological Function and Disease

      • David Shapiro, Richard S. Surwit

      Pages 7-46

   3. Control of States of Consciousness Attainment through External Feedback Augmenting Control of Psychophysiological Variables

      • Kenneth Gaarder

      Pages 47-56

   4. Biofeedback and Physiological Patterning in Human Emotion and Consciousness

      • Gary E. Schwartz

      Pages 57-67

   5. Problems in Biofeedback Training: An Experiential Analogy—Urination

      • Erik Peper

      Pages 69-75

   6. Clinical Applications of Biofeedback Training: A Review of Evidence

      • Edward B. Blanchard, Larry D. Young

      Pages 77-110

   7. The Possible Uses of Biofeedback in Education

      • Erik Peper

      Pages 111-117

   8. Passive Attention: The Gateway to Consciousness and Autonomic Control

      • Erik Peper

      Pages 119-124

   9. Biofeedback for Mind/Body Self-Regulation: Healing and Creativity

      • Elmer E. Green, Alyce M. Green, E. Dale Walters

      Pages 125-139

   10. The Two Endpoints of an EEG Continuum of Meditation—Alpha/Theta and Fast Beta

       • Erik Peper, Soma Ancoli

       Pages 141-149

   11. Biofeedback Training: Holistic and Transpersonal Frontiers

       • Erik Peper, Kenneth R. Pelletier, Barbara Tandy

       Pages 151-162

4. Back Matter

   Pages 5-6

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5. Complementary Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-165

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   2. About the Methods of Autogenic Therapy

      • Wolfgang Luthe

      Pages 167-186

   3. Progressive Relaxation Training: Overview, Procedure and Implications for Self-Regulation

      • Dale M. Patterson

      Pages 187-200

   4. Beliefs and Attitudes: Their Significance in Therapeutics

      • Michele Quinn

      Pages 201-205

   5. Biofeedback Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: An Ultimate Placebo

      • Charles F. Stroebel, Bernard C. Glueck

      Pages 207-222

   6. Belief in Biofeedback for the Control of Short-Term Stress

      • J. Douglas Gibb, Eric Stephan, C. E. Tapie Rohm Jr.

      Pages 223-227

Biofeedback training is a research methodology and training procedure through which people can learn voluntary control over their internal physiological systems. It is a merger of mUltiple disciplines with interest deriving from many sources-from basic understanding of psychophysiology to a desire for enhanced self-awareness. The goals of biofeedback are to develop an increased awareness of relevant internal physiological functions, to establish control over these functions, to generalize control from an experimental or clinical setting to everyday life, and to focus attention on mind/body integration. Biofeedback is explored in many different settings. In the university, biofeed­ back equipment and applications can be found in the departments of experi­ mental and clinical psychology, counseling, physiology, biology, education, and the theater arts, as well as in the health service (student infirmary). Outside the university, biofeedback may be found in different departments of hospitals (such as physical medicine), private clinics, education and self-awareness groups, psychotherapy practices, and elsewhere. Its growth is still expanding, and excite­ ment is still rising as a result of biofeedback's demonstration that autonomic functions can be brought under voluntary control and that the long-standing arti­ ficial separation between mind, body, and consciousness can be disproven.

• Arousal
• Biofeedback
• Emotion
• Management
• Training
• attention
• operant conditioning
• psychiatry

• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

  Erik Peper

• University of California, San Francisco, USA

  Sonia Ancoli

• Psychophysiological Treatment Center, Oxnard, USA

  Michele Quinn

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