Overview
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Erik Peper
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San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
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Sonia Ancoli
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University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Michele Quinn
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Psychophysiological Treatment Center, Oxnard, USA
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Electromyography Biofeedback
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- George B. Whatmore, Daniel R. Kohli
Pages 379-410
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- Johann Stoyva, Thomas Budzynski
Pages 411-433
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- Leon S. Otis, David Low, Ann Turner
Pages 435-438
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- Carol Schneider, Dona Culver
Pages 439-451
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Back Matter
Pages 363-365
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Cardiovascular Biofeedback I—Temperature
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Front Matter
Pages 465-468
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- Edward Taub, Cleeve S. Emurian
Pages 469-487
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- Erik Peper, Elmer Grossman
Pages 489-492
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- Joseph D. Sargent, E. Dale Walters, Elmer E. Green
Pages 493-506
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Back Matter
Pages 465-468
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Electrodermal Biofeedback
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Front Matter
Pages 507-508
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- Marjorie K. Toomim, Hershel Toomim
Pages 513-521
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Back Matter
Pages 507-508
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Cardiovascular Biofeedback II—Hypertension
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Front Matter
Pages 523-525
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Erik Peper
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University of California, San Francisco, USA
Sonia Ancoli
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Psychophysiological Treatment Center, Oxnard, USA
Michele Quinn