The self-healing personality
Subtitle: why some people achieve health and others succumb to illness
By: Howard S. Friedman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hard cover
Number of pages: 255
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Sick -- Psychology.; Personality -- Health aspects.
Description: First Edition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
"A Donald Hutter book."
Table of contents: title: Preface / ix; title: Acknowledgements / xi; title: 1. The Challenge of Healing / 1; title: 2. How Can Personality Be Related to Health? / 13; title: 3. Stress: Our Current Understanding / 30; title: 4. Negative Emotions and Health / 45; title: 5. Disease- prone Personalities / 57; title: 6. Personalities That Resist Disease : The Self-Healing Personality / 98; title: 7. Inner Healing Through Nerves and Hormones / 129; title: 8. Achieving Homeostasis : Developing a Self-healing Personality / 154; title: 9. Is There a Health Conspiracy? What Can Society Do? What Will Future Research Bring? / 202; title: Notes / 221; title: Index / 233