Perspectives on Stress and Stress-Related Topics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Comparative Psychobiological Stress Research

   • F. Lolas

   Pages 1-11

3. Population Density as a Stressor: Approaches to and Results of Research in the Social Sciences

   • J. Friedrichs, A. Mielck

   Pages 12-27

4. Delayed Auditory Feedback as a Stress Situation

   • E. Röck

   Pages 28-32

5. Stress Factors and Stress Coping Among Inhabitants of New Guinea

   • W. Schiefenhövel

   Pages 33-43

6. Industrial Work and Social Risks

   • H.-J. Braczyk

   Pages 44-62

7. The Effects of Some Physical and Psychosocial Prenatal Stressors on Early Development

   • J. H. Cullen, John A. Connolly

   Pages 63-95

8. The Concept of Stress and its Role in Disease Onset

   • H. Weiner

   Pages 96-107

9. Life Change and Illness Studies: Past History and Future Directions

   • R. H. Rahe, J. Arthur

   Pages 108-125

10. Stress, Psychosomatics, and Stress Coping from a Clinical-Psychological Point of View

    • M. Maderthaner

    Pages 126-161

11. Verbal Behavior, Emotion, and Psychosomatic Pathology

    • F. Lolas

    Pages 162-178

12. Psychoanalysis and Stress

    • L. Janus

    Pages 179-190

13. The Inner World of the Individual and Stress

    • W. G. Lawrence

    Pages 191-199

14. Death, Stress, and Life Itself

    • W. G. Lawrence

    Pages 200-208

15. Conclusion: Perspectives on Stress

    • F. Lolas

    Pages 209-215

16. Back Matter

    Pages 217-218

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Why a new book on stress when so many are already available? There is widespread awareness of the impact of scientific research in this field, both theoretical and practical. Scores of articles and books have been published. What is especially exciting about the range of theories and ideas presented in this book is that they derive from a variety of different intellectual traditions and scientific disciplines. The book is not an attempt to replace more extensive or basic treatments of this subject. Rather, it seeks to present the authors viewpoints together with data and methodological applications based on their personal experience in a straightforward manner. A number of the articles were commissioned some time ago, when Horst Mayer decided to publish the papers presented at a symposium which he organized in Heidelberg under the auspices of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine. Others emerged from later contacts with authors in different parts of the world. The result is a rather heterogeneous collection of "perspectives" on stress which, it is hoped, will stimulate readers to arrive at their own conclusions through its very diversity. When it was decided that Femando Lolas would join this endeavor at the end of 1984, it became clear that the material had lost none of its appeal.

• coping
• emotion
• psychoanalysis
• psychosomatic medicine
• psychosomatics
• stress

• Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago 7, Chile

  Fernando Lolas

• Forschungsgruppe Streß Medizinische Univ.-Klinik, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Horst Mayer

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