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Book SynopsisUsing attachment theory, Maunder and Hunter provide a practical, clinically focused introduction to the influence of attachment styles on an individual's risk of disease and the effectiveness of their interactions with health care providers.
Trade Review'This book is an excellent contribution to the literature on human attachment as it relates to health issues. Highly recommended.' -- M.C. Matteis Choice Magazine vol 53:10:2016 "Overall, this book is an engaging one that healthcare workers of all kinds will find interesting, informative and helpful. The rest of us, who sometimes are patients, will also find this book worthwhile, and in reading it may even recognize issues in ourselves and in those we know. " -- Keith Oatley The Literary Review of Canada, April, 2016 'Free from jargon, the text is easy to read, and each section provides several examples and a useful summary... The book could help healthcare workers to better meet their patients' needs and ultimately improve their health.' -- Angela Davis Nursing Standard February 2016 "This book is written to appeal to a wide clinical audience, including physicians, nurses and other care providers. The understanding this book promotes could go far in improving the care all clinicians offer to their patients." -- Barry Gilbert U of T Medicine Magazine, Winter 2015
Table of ContentsIntroduction Section One: Vexing Health Care 1. What is Health Care? 2. Why Else Do We Get Sick? 3. Health Happens Between Us Summary of Part One Section Two: Attachment & Health Introduction to Section Two: What is Attachment? 4. Attachment Sculpts the Brain 5. All Grown Up and Still Attached 6. Feeling secure is Good For You 7. Depression 8. Attachment is a Response to Stress 9. Why Are So Many of Us Fat, Drunk, Stationary Smokers? 10. I Don't Know What You Have But I've Seen It Before and You Have It Bad 11. Trouble in the Patient-Provider Relationship Summary of Part Two Section Three: Relational Health Care Introduction to Section Three: Principles of Adaptation and Change 12. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Anxiety Interferes 13. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Avoidance Interferes 14. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Fearful Attachment Interferes 15. Changing the System 16. Becoming More Secure 17. Beyond Health Care Relationships: A Wider attachment Perspective on Health Afterword
