The Age Of Hypochondria

Author : G. Grinnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230277373

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The Age of Hypochondria by G. Grinnell Pdf

Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions.

Author : Vladan Starcevic,Russell Noyes Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199996889

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Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety by Vladan Starcevic,Russell Noyes Jr. Pdf

In the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the diagnostic concept of hypochondriasis was eliminated and replaced by somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety: A Guide for Clinicians, edited by Vladan Starcevic and Russell Noyes and written by prominent clinicians and researchers in the field, addresses current issues in recognizing, understanding, and treating hypochondriasis. Using a pragmatic approach, it offers a wealth of clinically useful information. The book also provides a critical review of the underlying conceptual and treatment issues, addressing varying perspectives and synthesizing the current research. Specific topics the text covers include: clinical manifestations, diagnostic and conceptual issues, classification, relationships with other disorders, assessment, epidemiology, economic aspects, course, outcome and treatment. Additionally, the book discusses patient-physician relationship in the context of hypochondriasis and health anxiety and presents cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal and psychodynamic models and treatments. The authors also address the neurobiological underpinnings of hypochondriasis and health anxiety and pharmacological treatment approaches. Based on the extensive clinical experience of its authors, there are numerous case illustrations and practical examples of how to assess, understand and manage individuals presenting with disease preoccupations, health anxiety and/or beliefs that they are seriously ill. It approaches its subject from various perspectives and is a work of integration and critical thinking about an area often shrouded in controversy.

Author : Catherine Belling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199892365

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A Condition of Doubt by Catherine Belling Pdf

This title seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. The book's four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology; of medicine; of culture; and of narrative.

Author : Susan Baur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520067517

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Hypochondria by Susan Baur Pdf

Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life.

Author : R. D. Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351340328

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Revival: Hypochondria (1929) by R. D. Gillespie Pdf

‘Hypochondria’ is Medical Revival 12 containing the definition and nosology of Hypochondria in history and literature and the present day as published in 1929.

Author : Richard Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Health
ISBN : UCAL:B4527135

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The Healthy Hypochondriac by Richard Ehrlich Pdf

Abstract: Hypochondria--the universal illness--may be a necessary adjunct to human health. All persons are encouraged to recognize and understand their health anxieties in a text examining how hypochondria develops and how to deal with hypochondriac fears. Although most people worry about dangers to their health, few are willing to acknowledge hypochondria. Hypochondriac preoccupations are extremely variable and diverse; hypochondria is not a specific and well-defined illness. Hypochondria is a feature of growing up. It is learned, and each individual has a unique pattern of expressing it; reactive, essential and social hypochondriacs are described. The relationship of hypochondria to doctors, sex, and age is discussed. Since mild hypochondria may be psychologically healthy, curing it may be potentially destructive.

Author : Susan Baur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520067516

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Hypochondria by Susan Baur Pdf

Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life.

Author : M. R. C. S.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Hypochondria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213332328

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Confessions of a Hypochondriac by M. R. C. S. Pdf

Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141957937

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Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon Pdf

Tormented Hope is a book about mind and body, fear and hope, illness and imagination. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And in an intimate investigation of those nine lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body, by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Brian Dillon, whose brilliant debut In the Dark Room established him as an uncommonly intelligent and fluent explorer of the realm where ideas and emotions overlap, looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.

Author : Simon Kӧvesi,Erin Lafford
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030433741

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Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies by Simon Kӧvesi,Erin Lafford Pdf

This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare’s first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clare’s importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare’s world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare’s immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare’s work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates.

Author : Patricia Furer,John R. Walker,Murray B. Stein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387351452

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Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death by Patricia Furer,John R. Walker,Murray B. Stein Pdf

Contemporary culture includes a high awareness of personal and global health hazards. Many people may feel some anxiety in this regard, but some develop an unbearable sense of dread that prevents them from functioning. Treating Health Anxiety gives prescribing and non-prescribing clinicians, as well as the counselors and social workers who encounter the problem, the tools to reduce both the fears and the medical costs that so often accompany them.

Author : John Diamond
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409021148

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C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too by John Diamond Pdf

Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was, in fact, cancerous. Suddenly, this man who'd until this point been one of the world's greatest hypochondriacs, was genuinely faced with mortality. And what he saw scared the wits out of him. Out of necessity, he wrote about his feelings in his TIMES column and the response was staggering. Mailbag followed Diamond's story of life with, and without, a lump - the humiliations, the ridiculous bits, the funny bits, the tearful bits. It's compelling, profound, witty, in the mould of THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY.

Author : Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128118061

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The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety by Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf Pdf

The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Effective Treatment provides mental health professionals with methods to better identify patients with health anxiety, the basic skills to manage it, and ways to successfully adapt cognitive behavioral therapy to treat it. The book features structured diagnostic instruments that can be used for assessment, while also underscoring the importance of conducting a comprehensive functional analysis of the patient's problems. Sections cover refinements in assessment and treatment methods and synthesize existing literature on etiology and maintenance mechanisms. Users will find an in-depth look at who develops health anxiety, what the behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that contribute to it are, why it persists in patients, and how it can be treated. Provides clinicians with tools to better identify, manage and treat health anxiety Outlines a step-by-step behavioral treatment program Looks at the similarities and differences between health anxiety and other anxiety disorders Reviews self-report instruments that can be used to measure health anxiety on a dimensional scale Includes information about recent diagnostic changes according to DSM-5

Author : Robert Deam Tobin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 083875466X

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Doctor's Orders by Robert Deam Tobin Pdf

Doctor's Orders shows how the foundational novel of the German tradition, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, documents the rise of medicine as an institution structuring the self and society. It sheds light on the Bildungsroman that this novel established, provides a groundbreaking overview of the role of medicine in eighteenth-century Germany, and addresses larger questions concerning the relationship between medicine and literature.

Author : Robert Meister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Hypochondria
ISBN : UCLA:L0072014426

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Hypochondria by Robert Meister Pdf