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

Michael S Myslobodsky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

468 Seiten

2004
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-238-458-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Michael S Myslobodsky, MD, DSc, is an Israeli neuroscientist born in Vilna (Poland). He is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and holds a professorship at the Graduate School of Howard University (Washington, DC). From 1985 to 1987 he was a visiting scientist at the US National Institute of Mental Health and since 1989 he has been a guest researcher at the same institute. He currently serves as the editor of a Kluwer Academic International series, Neurobiological Foundations of Aberrant Behaviors. Prof. Myslobodsky has written widely on experimental and clinical neurology, neuroradiology, neurophysiology and psychopharmacology of epilepsy.

The Point of Departure: The Pillars of the Health Psychology Edifice; 'Bad Boys' and Prenatal Programming; Between Psychiatry and Medicine: Illness in Search of a Place; The Deadly Trio; Collective Exaggerated Emotions; A Complementary Point of View; Holistic Philosophy and a Recipe for Causative Goulash; If Health Psychology is the Answer, What was the Question?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.10.2004
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
ISBN-10	981-238-458-8 / 9812384588
ISBN-13	978-981-238-458-4 / 9789812384584
Zustand	Neuware