Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions - Hardcover

Stoudemire MD, G. Alan

9780880487085: Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880487089 ISBN 13: 9780880487085

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 1995

This book examines evidence suggesting that psychiatric disorders may complicate medical illness, that personality may influence the onset and course of illness, and that psychosocial treatments may influence medical as well as psychiatric outcome. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions is a collection of articles that originally appeared in Psychosomatics.

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Review:

"This book is concise yet well-documented, with references through 1993. The authors have succeeded admirably in defining the current state of knowledge of their areas of psychosomatic medicine."-- "Psychiatric Times"

" "Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions" would be a useful addition to the libraries of both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric physicians, as well as psychologists, who desire an introductory overview of the interrelationships among psychological and medical outcomes."-- "Contemporary Psychology"

About the Author:

Alan Stoudemire, M.D., was Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine, and Chief of Psychiatry at Emory University Hospital and Clinic in Atlanta, Georgia.

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