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Biological Barriers in Behavioral Medicine

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Linden

    1. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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

    Wolfgang Linden

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