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Psychology, Women's Connections, and Breast Cancer
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English
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Book
Description
Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1. Marylu's Battle
The Spiegel Breakthrough
Women as Health Experts
Is Medicine Enough?
Using Psychology to Boost Breast Cancer Treatment
Ch. 2. The Power inside Us
How Thinking Affects Healing
Curing vs. Controlling Breast Cancer
Hormones, Nerves, Feelings, and Immune Cells
The Logic of the Body's Reactions
Psychology Is Not Mind Control
Psychology and Medicine
Strengthening the Body's Fighting Response
Ch. 3. Immune Cells and Emotions
How Immune Cells Work
Learned Responses
Psychological Forces That Affect Natural Killer Cells
Psychotherapy and Breast Cancer
Talking as a Way to Reduce Stress
The Faith Courtauld Studies
Adjuvant Psychological Therapy
The Health Effects of Behavior
Ch. 4. Women's Conversations and Cancer Cells
Fawzy Fawzy at UCLA
The Heidelberg Prospective Intervention Study
Women's Conversations, Deep and Superficial
Group Psychotherapy: Concentrated Connecting
Legitimizing the Woman
Cancer as a Communication Block
Women's Communication
Self-Disclosure
Assertiveness in Setting a Life Course
Why Breast Cancer Patients Avoid Groups
Ch. 5. Relationships and Breast Cancer
The Need to Belong
The Impact of Women's Connections on Health
Living with People
Living Alone
Marriages and Partnerships
Children
Friends
Pets
Ch. 6. Acting Alive: Thoughts and Feelings
Fear of Thoughts and Feelings
Restoring Your Feeling Parts
Sadness or Depression?
Helplessness and Health
Developing Good Mental Housekeeping
The Cost of Sloppy Mental Habits
Learned Liveliness
The Effects of Your Explanatory Style
Having Arguments inside Your Head
Developing Fighting Spirit
Developing the Action Habit
Ch. 7. Limiting the Trauma of Breast Cancer Treatment: I. Understanding How You Feel
The Emotional Response to Breast Cancer Treatment
1. Diagnosis
2. Surgery
3. Radiation and Chemotherapy
4. Autologous Bone Marrow Transplants (ABMT)
5. Recurrences
Ch. 8. Limiting the Trauma of Breast Cancer Treatment: II. Boosting Chemotherapy
Complete Treatment
Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Conditioning
Using Professionals: When Self-Help Is Not Helpful
1. Progressive Muscle Relaxation
2. Hypnosis
3. Systematic Desensitization
4. Biofeedback
Ch. 9. Women Connected
The Power of Women's Connections
Cancer as a Breakdown of Physiological Connection
Gender Health Differences
Epilogue
Notes
Technical Terms
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