Do you suffer from ongoing pain or other chronic medical symptoms such as fatigue, lower back pain, arthritis, acid indigestion, insomnia, or migraines? Do you feel as though your symptoms are taking over your life? Thirty percent of the population suffers from chronic debilitating illnesses and pain that respond only partially to conventional medicine, but this doesn't mean that there is no relief in sight. Dr. Arthur Barsky, psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, has found that changing the way you think about your illness can have a remarkable effect on how you experience your symptoms. The groundbreaking program he offers in Stop Being Your Symptoms and Start Being Yourself teaches patients to master the five psychological factors that make chronic symptoms persist through hundreds of exercises, worksheets, and patient examples. You may not be able to completely eliminate your medical symptoms, but it is possible to control your symptoms rather than letting them control you—and this book shows you how.

Feeling Better: A 6-Week Mind-Body Program to Ease Your Chronic Symptoms

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barsky, Arthur J.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

William Morrow Paperbacks

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An authoritative guide to understanding and treating depression in the medically ill 
Depression in Medical Illness is based on the fact that depression and medical illness are inextricably bound together and must be viewed through a single lens in order to truly understand, diagnose, and treat them. 
Throughout the book, the authors emphasize not simply a critical distillation and balanced summary of the available empirical data, but equally important, an active synthesis, formulation, and analysis of that evidence.This informs a contemporary biomedical understanding, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. All of the chapters are authored by members of the Department of Psychiatry at the world-renowned Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In chapters devoted to specific medical disorders, psychiatrists with particular expertise in those areas have been joined by other eminent Brigham medical and surgical specialists or subspecialists. This makes these chapters valuable not just to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, but to a wide range of medical specialists as well.
Logically Organized Into Four Sections:
Core Concepts – provides a conceptual and intellectual framework for understanding depressive illness in the context of medical illness
Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Medically Ill Patients – discusses the general principles of depression diagnosis and treatment
Depression in Medical Illness – assesses what we know about depression when it is comorbid with the full range of major medical disorders
Special Populations and Settings – devoted to special patient populations and the importance of the settings in which care is delivered
Editors:
Arthur J. Barsky, MD, Senior Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
David A. Silbersweig, MD, Senior Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 
Associate Editor:
Robert J. Boland, MD, Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Depression in Medical Illness

Silbersweig, David A.

Mental Health

McGraw-Hill Medical

A close up examination of American attitudes toward health and medicine explores how the medicalization of society causes Americans to be more symptomatic and explains why medicine must be kept in perspective

Worried Sick: Our Troubled Quest for Wellness

Little,Brown & Co

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