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Psychosomatic Medicine Book List

 

The Sickening Mind  by Paul Martin (Flamingo 1997, £8.99)

A fascinating account of mind-body interaction -- well written, with numerous literary references

 

Molecules of Emotion  by Candace Pert  (Simon and Schuster 1999, £8.99)

The author was one if the American neuroscientists involved in some of the early research on endorphins. Here, she describes her work in an easy, conversational style, that occasionally lapses into New Age journalese

 

Mind-body Medicine  edited by Alan Watkins  (Churchill Livingstone 1997, £26.95)

A standard, basic textbook on mind-body medicine and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). One to flick through in the library, rather than buy

 

'Love's Executioner' and Other Tales of Psychotherapy  by Irvin Yalom  (Penguin 1991, £7.99)

Not exactly about psychosomatics, but an absolutely captivating set of psychotherapy case histories that reads, as they say, like a novel

 

Medical Knowledge: Doubt and Certainty  edited by Clive Seale and Stephen Pattison  (Open University Press 1994)

The first in the Health and Disease series for the Open University course, it is an excellent overview of medical sociology, covering differing health beliefs, history of medicine, and 'hysteria'


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