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Psychological Aspects of Early Breast Cancer (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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Psychological Aspects of Early Breast Cancer (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: Contributions to Psychology and Medicine
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Physical illness cannot be effectively treated other than in the
context of the psychological factors with which it is associated.
The body may have the disease, but it is the patient who is ill.
Research psychologists from a number of different backgrounds have,
in the past few decades, turned increasingly to the study of
physical illness, and there is now an extensive literature on
preventive behaviors, the role of stress in the etiology of
illness, the patient's reactions to illness and its treatment, and
the physician-patient relationship. At the same time practicing
clinical psychologists have extended their concern beyond the
treatment of speci fically psychiatric disorders, to include also
the psychological care of people experiencing distress through
illness or injury. Traditionally, these patients have tended to
fall through the net, unless their distress is so great that it
assumes the proportion of a psychiatric disorder that can then be
treated in its own right. Because the physical disorder is the
primary one, its existence has detracted from the salience of the
very real emotional disturbance to which it can give rise.
Moreover, emotional reactions in this setting, being the norm,
seems to have been regarded as not meriting special attention and
care. This situation is chang ing, and it is not just psychologists
or psychiatrists who are responsible for the shift in attitudes.
Within general medicine itself, there is now a renewed empha sis on
the care of the whole patient and not just the disease."
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