The oxytocin factor
Subtitle: tapping the hormone of calm, love, and healing
By: Kerstin Uvnas Moberg ; translated from the Swedish by Roberta W. Francis ; drawings by Ari Iliste.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Subjects: Oxytocin -- Physiological effect; Oxytocin -- physiology; Oxytocin -- therapeutic use; Stress, Psychological -- drug therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Table of contents: title: Oxytocin; title: The environmental context; title: An essential balance; title: The body's control centers; title: How oxytocin works; title: Effects of oxytocin injections; title: The oxytocin tree; title: Nursing: oxytocin's starring role; title: Oxytocin and touch; title: Oxytocin and other senses; title: Oxytocin and sexuality; title: Oxytocin and relationships; title: Massage; title: Eating: an internal massage; title: Cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs; title: Medication-induced calm and connection; title: Motion and stillness; title: Our inner ecology.