Healing Psyche - Patterns and structure of complementary psychological cancer therapy (CPCT)
- Paperback: 418 pages
- Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (November 20, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 1419647377
SECTION A: HEALTH AND HEALING
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Preface
1.2 Personal Background
1.3 About this Work
1.3.1 Overview
1.3.2 Inclusion & Exclusion
1.4 My Invitation
1.5 Notes to the Reader
1.6 Acknowledgements
2 HEALTH AND HEALING
2.1 Healing versus Curing
2.2 Specialization
2.2.1 Medical Paradigm
2.2.2 Psychological Paradigm
2.2.3 Psychosomatic Paradigm
2.3 Mind-Body Connection
2.3.1 Psychosomatic Medicine
2.3.2 Influence of the Mind
2.3.3 Psychotherapy
2.3.4 History of Mind and Cancer
3 CANCER
3.1 Benign vs. Malignant
3.1.1 Benign
3.1.2 Malignant
3.2 Classification
3.2.1 TNM
3.2.2 Staging System
3.3 Normal Cell Growth
3.3.1 Growth Rate
3.4 The Cancer Process
3.4.1 Mutation
3.4.2 Development
3.4.3 Immune System
3.4.4 Survival
SECTION B: PSYCHOSOMATIC MODEL
4 THE MODEL
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Stress
4.2 Psychosomatic Model
4.3 Events
4.3.1 Life Change Units (LCU
4.3.2 Life Events and Difficulties Scales (LEDS)
4.4 Perception
4.5 Appraisal
4.5.1 Beliefs
4.5.2 Conscious vs. Unconscious Beliefs
4.5.3 Positive Thinking
4.6 Coping
4.6.1 Development of Coping
4.6.2 Coping Styles
4.6.1 Classification
4.7 Emotions
4.8 Behavior
5 CONNECTIONS TO CANCER
5.1 Events
5.1.1 Experience of Loss
5.1.2 Discussion
5.2 Appraisal
5.2.1 Personality Traits
5.2.2 Primary Appraisal
5.2.3 Secondary Appraisal
5.3 Coping
5.3.1 Emotional Repression
5.3.2 Anti-Emotionality
5.3.3 Social Support
5.4 Emotions
5.4.1 Emotions
5.4.2 Emotional Cysts
5.4.3 Depression
SECTION C: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGICAL CANCER TREATMENT PROGRAMS
6 CURRENT TREATMENT PROGRAMS
6.1 Simonton Program
6.1.1 Results
6.1.2 Goals
6.1.3 Interventions
6.1.4 Key Alements of the Approach
6.1.5 Program
6.1.6 Spiegel Program
6.1.7 Results
6.1.8 Goals
6.1.9 Therapeutic Overview
6.1.10 Key Elements of the Approach
6.1.11 Program
6.2 Autonomy Training Program
6.2.1 Results
6.2.2 Goals
6.2.3 Key Elements of the Approach
6.2.4 Program
6.3 Cancer as a Turning Point Program
6.4 Type C Transformation Program
6.4.3 Key Elements of the Approach
6.5.1 Wellness Community Program
6.5.2 Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP) Program
6.5.3 Commonweal Cancer Help Program (CCHP)
6.5.4 Mind/Body Medical Institute (MBMI) Program
6.5.5 Fawzy Psychosocial Group Therapy Program
6.6 Summary and Overview
SECTION D: PSYCHOSOMATIC MODEL APPLIED TO CANCER TREATMENT
7 INTRODUCTION
7.1 Psychological Therapy
7.1.1 False Hope
7.1.2 Benefits of Psychological Therapy
8 THERAPY
8.1 The Process
8.1.1 Timing
8.1.2 Therapeutic Goal
8.1.3 Presuppositions
8.1.4 Coping with Recurrence
8.2 The Therapist
8.2.1 The Therapist's Beliefs
8.2.2 Relationship with Clients
8.2.3 Death
9 WORKING WITH EVENTS
9.1 Diagnosis
9.1.1 Questionnaire
9.1.2 Creative Listing
9.2 Therapy
9.2.1 Evasion
9.2.2 Desensitization
10 WORKING WITH PERCEPTION
11 CHANGING THE APPRAISAL PROCESS
11.1 Diagnosis
11.1.1 Life Events
11.1.2 Determined from Emotions
11.1.3 List of Beliefs
11.1.4 Behavior
11.1.5 Imagery
11.1.6 Pitfalls
11.1.7 Healthy and Unhealthy Beliefs
11.2 Therapy: Generic Appraisal Interventions
11.2.1 Mapping Across Sub-modalities
11.2.2 Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)
11.2.3 Reframing
11.2.4 Imagery
11.2.5 Changing History
11.2.6 Installing Useful Beliefs
11.3 Therapy: Specific Appraisal Interventions
11.3.1 Personality Traits
11.3.2 Primary Appraisal
11.3.3 Secondary Appraisal
11.3.4 Secondary Gain
12 EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING
12.1 Diagnosis
12.2 Therapy
12.2.1 Emotional Expression
12.2.2 Anti-emotionality
13 EMOTIONS
13.1 Diagnosis
13.2 Therapy: Generic Emotional Interventions
13.2.1 Relaxation, Meditation, Hypnotic Trance
13.2.2 Physical Exercise
13.2.3 Selective Support System
13.3 Therapy: Specific Emotional Interventions
13.3.1 Distressing Emotions
13.3.2 Comforting Emotions
SECTION E: DIRECT PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE ON PHYSIOLOGY
14 INTRODUCTION
15 INFLUENCING PHYSIOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
15.1 Conditioning
15.2 Hypnotic Suggestions
15.2.1 “Towards” or “Away From”
15.2.2 Treatment of Warts
15.3 Communication with Symptoms
15.4 Imagery
15.4.1 Types of Imagery
15.4.2 Elements of Imagery
15.4.3 Applications
15.4.4 Common Problems in Imagery
16 INFLUENCING PAIN
16.1 Imagery
16.2 Communication with Pain
16.3 Secondary Gains from Pain
16.4 Creating Pleasure
16.5 Changing Focus
16.6 Hypnotic Pain Management
SECTION F: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
17 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
17.1 Mind-Body Connection
17.2 Psychological Markers of Cancer Clients
17.2.1 Metaprograms
17.2.2 Organ Language
17.2.3 Combined Psychological Markers
17.3 Specific Cancers
17.4 Interventions
17.4.1 Conditioning
17.4.2 Hypnotic Suggestions
17.4.3 Imagery
17.4.4 Regression
18 CONCLUSIONS
18.1 General Conclusions
18.1.1 Psychotherapy Plays an Important Role in Cancer Treatment
18.1.2 There is Much Information, But Less Hard Data
18.1.3 One Should Use “Complementary” as a Descriptive Term
18.1.4 There is Always Hope
18.2 “Fundamental Image”: A New Psychosomatic Model
19 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
APPENDIX
Diagnostic Belief list
Healthy Beliefs
Imagery scripts
Healing Psyche Online Resources
Bibliography
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