The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease

Immune conditioning (#litres_trial_promo)

Immune conditioning and disease (#litres_trial_promo)

Some allergic history revisited (#litres_trial_promo)

The strange story of the left-handed brain (#litres_trial_promo)

The wonderful world of herpes (#litres_trial_promo)

5 The Demon Stress (#litres_trial_promo)

What is stress? (#litres_trial_promo)

The biology of stress (#litres_trial_promo)

Stress, immunity and health (#litres_trial_promo)

The quality of stress (#litres_trial_promo)

Control, control and control (#litres_trial_promo)

The joy of stress (#litres_trial_promo)

The stress-seekers (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Other People (#litres_trial_promo)

Hell is other people? – relationships as stressors (#litres_trial_promo)

Hell is alone? – the harmful effects of isolation (#litres_trial_promo)

Michael Henchard’s will (#litres_trial_promo)

How does it work? (#litres_trial_promo)

Social relationships and immunity (#litres_trial_promo)

The lonely future (#litres_trial_promo)

7 The Wages of Work (#litres_trial_promo)

The toad work (#litres_trial_promo)

Who suffers and why? (#litres_trial_promo)

The scourge of unemployment (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Sick at Heart (#litres_trial_promo)

Hearts and minds (#litres_trial_promo)

The mind in sudden cardiac death and heart disease (#litres_trial_promo)

Coronary-prone personalities and heart disease (#litres_trial_promo)

The Type A behaviour pattern (#litres_trial_promo)

Type A – the evidence (#litres_trial_promo)

Anger and hostility (#litres_trial_promo)

How does it work? (#litres_trial_promo)

Biological reactivity and the Type A person (#litres_trial_promo)

9 The Mind of the Crab (#litres_trial_promo)

The mind in cancer (#litres_trial_promo)

Is there a cancer-prone personality? (#litres_trial_promo)

Some fictional Type Cs (#litres_trial_promo)

Psychological influences on survival (#litres_trial_promo)

How does it work? (#litres_trial_promo)

10 Encumbered with Remedies (#litres_trial_promo)

Relax! (#litres_trial_promo)

Exercise! (#litres_trial_promo)

Those little pink pills (#litres_trial_promo)

Psychoneuroimmunology and AIDS (#litres_trial_promo)

Imagery, miracle cures and other exotica (#litres_trial_promo)

Kill or cure? (#litres_trial_promo)

11 Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine (#litres_trial_promo)

That old mind – body problem (#litres_trial_promo)

The grip of dualism (#litres_trial_promo)

Some ancient history (#litres_trial_promo)