The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease represents a unique contribution to the clinician's tool chest for diagnosing and treating psychosomatic illness. This book breaks new ground by asking and answering many of the key questions that trouble every practicing clinician: Why do patients use somatization? Can we predict who will be a somatizer? Is there an underlying process involved? Why are these patients so difficult to treat? Beginning with a discussion of contemporary disease classification, The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization clarifies matters greatly by talking in terms of chronic and situational somatization, showing that chronic patients use illness as a way of life, while situational patients somatically respond to existential crises, and revealing how both are rooted in the mind-body interface. Drawing on elements of personality theory, the authors discuss the core conflicts and character structure inherent in both types of somatization and suggest treatment options appropriately geared toward the needs of each. The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization describes how chronic somatization can be addressed by cognitive-behavioral therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, while situational somatization can be managed with short-term existential psychotherapy. Concluding with a discussion of medications that may be helpful to the somatizing patient, this volume represents an original approach to explaining what goes on in the mind of the somatizer.

The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Smith, Lynn W.

Conway, Patrick W.

Mental Health

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Are you looking into how to advance your professional development through certification? Need a reliable and credible reference resource? No matter where you are in the process, make sure you have the most valuable review and resource tool at your disposal. The Nursing Knowledge Center’s Cardiac–Vascular Nursing Review and Resource Manual is a must-have tool for nurses planning to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC’s) Cardiac–Vascular Nursing certification exam. Based on the official ANCC certification exam test content outline, this review and resource manual will help you: • Study and analyze comprehensive material and concepts written by nursing experts. • Develop a recommended seven-step plan to equip you for the exam and map out what to do on the day of the exam. • Prepare for and familiarize yourself with acute care nurse practitioner standards of practice. • And much more ... Make the Cardiac–Vascular Nursing Review and Resource Manual a key resource in your certification preparation.

Cardiac-Vascular Nursing Review and Resource Manual, 4th edition

Medical Books

Nursing

American Nurses Association, Nursing Knowledge Center

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