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Coping and Complaining: Attachment and the Language of DIS-Ease »

Authors: Simon Wilkinson
ISBN-13: 9781583911693, ISBN-10: 1583911693
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Simon Wilkinson

Book Synopsis

Wilkinson (adolescent psychiatry, U. Hospital, Oslo) explores how adult responses to discomfort develop beginning with infants crying, and are shaped constantly by feedback from others. Among other goals, he wants readers to distinguish between disease and illness. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	List of boxes
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
1	'I'm ill; you're sick'	1
2	Genes, brain and the internal milieu: Our limits and resources	20
3	Learning and memory: A basis for understanding development and change in the face of threat and danger	52
4	The ideal patient: The 'balanced' type B attachment strategies	89
5	'I'm OK; don't worry about me. 'The dismissing' type A attachment strategies	118
6	'My pain is really terrible. What are you going to do about it?': The 'preoccupied' type C attachment strategies, and other classifications	164
7	Ambiguous symptoms and the attachment strategies of health professionals	212
8	Goal-corrected partnerships for health	246
	Glossary	283
	References	287
	Index	313