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Love, Fear, and Health
How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care
Robert Maunder (Author), Jonathan Hunter (Author)
9781442615601
Paperback / softback, published 16 September 2015
344 pages, 17 figures
22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.44 kg
“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.” "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. " ‘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.’ ‘This book is an excellent contribution to the literature on human attachment as it relates to health issues. Highly recommended.’
Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology, and evolutionary biology to explain how understanding attachment – the ways in which people seek security in their close relationships – can transform patient outcomes. Using 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. Drawing on more than fifty years of combined experience as health care providers, teachers, and researchers, they explain in clear language how health care workers in all disciplines can use this knowledge to meet their patients’ needs better and to improve their health.
Introduction Section One: Vexing Health Care Section Two: Attachment & Health Section Three: Relational Health Care Afterword
1. What is Health Care?
2. Why Else Do We Get Sick?
3. Health Happens Between Us
Summary of Part One
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
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