Domar, Alice D.

Healing mind, healthy woman : using the mind-body connection to manage stress and take control of your life / Alice D. Domar & Henry Dreher. - 1st edition - New York : Henry Holt, c1996. - xxiii, 422 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents;

Part I: Mind-body medicine for women
1. Women, stress, and mind-body medicine
2. The relaxation response and other coping skills
3. Roads to relaxation
4. Mini-relaxations: The perfect portable stress managers
5. Catching the nasty mind: Cognitive restructuring
6. Healing through self-nurturance
7. Reaching out to friends and family
8. Women's anger, women's joy: Emotional expression
9. Mindful eating, modest exercise

Part II: Women's conditions, women's treatments
10. The storm before the calm: PMS
11. Reclaiming your life: Infertility
12. Calming the womb: Miscarriage and difficult pregnancies
13. Minding the change: Menopause
14. Fat is a mind-body issue: Eating disorders
15. From trauma to transformation: Breast and gynecologic cancers
16. Soothing the hurt: Endometriosis and pelvic pain
17. Self-esteem is a women's health issue



Bibliographical references : p. [385]-398 . _ Index : p. 407-422.

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Women--Health and hygiene.
Stress management for women.
Medicine, Popular.
Psychoneuroendocrinology.

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