Biological Barriers in Behavioral Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Self-Regulation Theory in Behavioral Medicine

   • Wolfgang Linden

   Pages 1-12

3. Biological Barriers in the Treatment of Alcoholism

   • David M. Lawson, Michelle Craske

   Pages 13-34

4. Causes and Effects of Obesity

   • Donna Romano White, Norman M. White

   Pages 35-62

5. Biobehavioral Approaches to Smoking Control

   • J. Allan Best, Patricia E. Wainwright, David E. Mills, Susan A. Kirkland

   Pages 63-99

6. Considerations in the Treatment of Insomnia

   • P. H. Van Oot, T. D. Borkovec

   Pages 101-140

7. Self-Regulation and Type A Behavior

   • Nanette M. Frautschi, Margaret A. Chesney

   Pages 141-162

8. Biopsychological Barriers to the Behavioral Treatment of Hypertension

   • Wolfgang Linden

   Pages 163-191

9. Psychophysiological Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract

   • Harry S. Shabsin, William E. Whitehead

   Pages 193-220

10. Asthma

    • Thomas L. Creer

    Pages 221-255

11. Pain

    • Ruth V. E. Grunau, Kenneth D. Craig

    Pages 257-279

12. Understanding and Preventing Relapse

    • Kelly D. Brownell, Edward Lichtenstein, G. Alan Marlatt, G. Terence Wilson

    Pages 281-320

13. Back Matter

    Pages 321-325

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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 neu­ 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 medi­ 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.

• Biofeedback
• Depression
• Emotion
• Intervention
• Management
• Motivation
• Syndrom
• Training
• attention
• learning theory

• Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Wolfgang Linden

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