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.