THE HEALING MIND --- THE VITAL LINKS BETWEEN BRAIN AND
BEHAVIOR, IMMUNITY AND DISEASE by Paul Martin. St. Martin's Press, 1997
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pix)

    1) The body of knowledge (p1-26)

      [1] Opening shots (p1-2)

      [2] Iraqi SCUDs and Chinese grandmothers (p3-6)

      [3] Roundheads and Cavaliers (p6-12)

      [4] Some completely fictitious case histories (p12-15)

    2) Shadows on the sun (p27-44)

      [1] Death, disaster and voodoo (p29-32)

      [2] Trouble, strife, and sickness (p32-35)

      [3] Life events (p35-41)

      [4] The mind and the common cold (p41-44)

    3) Psyche's machine --- the inside story (p45-80)

      [1] The perception of sickness (p46-55)

      [2] Bad behavior (p55-65)

      [3] Mind over immune matter (p65-75)

        (1) Understanding immunity (p75-70)

        (2) Autoimmunity (p71-72)

        (3) Measuring immunity (p72-75)

        (4) The mind-immunity connections (p75-80)

    4) Mind and immunity (p81-116)

      [1] What can the mind do to the immune system? (p81-93)

        (1) Bereavement and nuclear disasters (p82-87)

        (2) Spaceflight, exams, and other nastiness (p87-91)

        (3) Does it matter? (p92-93)

      [2] What can the immune system do to the mind? (p93-95)

        Quote by Shakespeare from Hamlet in 1601: (p93)
        "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"

        (1) Depression (p95-99)

      [3] Immune conditioning (p99-102)

        (1) Immune conditioning and disease (p103-105)

        (2) Some allergic history revisited (p105-106)

      [4] The strange story of the left-handed brain (p106-110)

      [5] The wonderful world of herpes (p110-116)

    5) The demon stress (p117-150)

      [1] What is stress? (p117-126)

        Quote by Shakespeare from Hamlet in 1601: (p116)
        "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

      [2] The biology of stress (p126-137)

        Stress, immunity, and health (p134-137)

      [3] The quality of stress (p137-145)

        Control, control, and control (p142-145)

      [4] The joy of stress (p146-150)

        The stress-seekers (p148-150)

    6) Other people (p151-172)

      [1] Hell is other people --- relationships as stressors (p150-156)

      [2] Hell is alone? --- the harmful effects of isolation (p157-163)

      [3] How does it work? (p164-171)

        Social relationships and immunity (p167-171)

      [4] The lonely future (p171-172)

    7) The wages of work (p173-189)

      [1] The toad work (p173-182)

        Who suffers and why (p177-182)

      [2] The scourge of unemployment (p182-189)

        Quote by Voltaire in Candide, 1759: (p182)
        "Work banishes those three great evils --- boredom, vice, and poverty."

    8) Sick at heart (p190-215)

      [1] Hearts and minds (p190-192)

      [2] The mind in sudden cardiac death and heart disease (p192-198)

      [3] Coronary-prone personalities and heart disease (p198-209)

        (1) The Type A behavior pattern (p200-203)

        (2) Type A --- the evidence (p203-207)

        (3) Anger and hostility (p207-209)

        (4) Biological reactivity and the Type A person (p210-215)

    9) The mind and the crab (p216-240)

      [1] The mind in cancer (p218-223)

      [2] Is there a cancer-prone personality? (p223-228)

        (1) Some fictional Type Cs (p224-228)

      [3] How does it work (p234-240)

    10) Encumbered with remedies (p241-260)

      Quote by Shakespeare from Hamlet in 1601: (p241)
      "Suit the action to the word."

      [1] Relax! (p242-245)

      [2] Exercise! (p245-250)

      [3] Those little pink pills (p250-251)

      [4] Psychoneuroimmunology and AIDS (p251-255)

      [5] Imagery, miracle cures, and other exotica (p255-257)

      [6] Kill or cure? (p258-260)

    11) Exorcising the ghost in the machine (p261-276)

      [1] That old mind-body problem (p263-266)

      [2] The grip of dualism (p266-271)

        (1) Some ancient history (p268-271)

      [3] Rene Descartes and the separation of mind from body (p271-276)

        (1) Descartes' demise (p275-276)

    12) A fresh pair of lenses (p277-314)

      Quote by P. & J. Medawar, The Life of Science, 1977: (p277)
      "For a biologist the alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all."

      [1] Development (p278-283)

        Mothers and offspring (p281-283)

      [2] Evolution (p283-286)

        (1) Sick by design (p287-292)

        (2) Genes for disease (p292-294)

        (3) Diseases of modern life (p294-298)

        (4) Evolutionary arms races (p299-301)

        (5) The functions of unpleasantness (p301-306)

        (6) Why does stress make us ill? (p306-308)

      [3] Darwin's illness (p309-314)

      [4] Parting shots (p314)

    NOTES (p315-327)

    REFERENCES (329-356)

    INDEX (p357-370)
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