Fallacy Of Mother's Wisdom, The: A Critical Perspective On Health Psychology - Hardcover

Myslobodsky, Michael S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 981238457X ISBN 13: 9789812384577

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Health psychology is an offer of help, an effort to understand how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health and illness. As one of the fast-growing sub-specialties, it has now outstripped other divisions of psychology in terms of excitement in the public eye. And yet a new occupation was built on somewhat unrealistic, idealized assumptions. The title of this book was therefore chosen to emphasize the fact that an extensive critique of those assumptions is essential. This book proposes arbitrary boundaries for a discourse on health psychology. The array of subjects is based on two major themes: the foundation of health psychology and the range of disorders where psychological knowledge might benefit the sick; and the question of whether or not health psychology has a systematic and pragmatic structure so as to qualify as a profession.

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?His books, 'Mother's Wisdom' included, fill me with both knowledge and recognitions of its limits ..."

Synopsis

Health psychology is an offer of help, an effort to understand how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health and illness. Although its claim of a share of health care territory was never loud, it has become one of the fast-growing sub-specialties; it has now outstripped other divisions of psychology in terms of excitement in the public eye. And yet a new occupation was built on somewhat unrealistic, idealized assumptions; the title of this book was therefore chosen to emphasize the fact that an extensive critique of those assumptions is missing. Consequently, there has never been a consensus as to what should be studied first, what to include in and what should be omitted from the health psychology syllabus. This book proposes arbitrary boundaries for a discourse on health psychology. The array of subjects is based on two major themes: the foundation of health psychology and the range of disorders where psychological knowledge might benefit the sick; and the question of whether or not health psychology has a systematic and pragmatic structure so as to qualify as a profession.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 981238457X
• ISBN 13: 9789812384577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 468