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The Balance within - The Science Connecting Health and Emotions (Paperback, New edition)
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In the late 1960s psychiatrist Bob Rose began to study one of the
most stressful occupations of all - air traffic controllers. He
travelled the length of the USA to gather data on over 400
controllers and discovered that it was psychological variables like
feeling alienated at work or abandoned by their employers that
predicted most accurately who suffered from problems like high
blood pressure. He followed up his sample again in 1993, and found
that more than any other physical variable measured in their blood,
blood pressure or urine, it was psychological factors measured
decades earlier that best predicted the later development of
illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, alcoholism and depression.
It is research like this which establishes vital links between body
and mind which, unfortunately, modern Western medicine and practice
still glosses over. This is a weakness that perhaps alternative and
complementary therapies do not suffer from, and could partly
explain why they are so preferred. Sternberg is a senior medical
figure in the science of neurimmunology, the interaction between
the nervous system and immune systems, and seeks to remedy the lack
of medical interest in how the mind can make you ill or well with
this straightforward, readable account of the interface between
medicine and psychology. Review by DR RAJ PERSAUD Editor's note:
Raj Persaud is a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital
in London. (Kirkus UK)
This text explores the mind-body connection and what it means for
health. Esther Sternberg provides accounts of the experiments that
reveal the physical mechanisms - the nerves, cells and hormones -
used by the brain and immune system to communicate with each other.
She describes just how stress can make us more susceptible to all
types of illness, and how the immune system can alter moods.
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