Overview
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Erik Peper
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San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
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Sonia Ancoli
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University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Michele Quinn
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Psychophysiological Treatment Center, Oxnard, USA
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Biofeedback training is a research methodology and training procedure through which people can learn voluntary control over their internal physiological systems. It is a merger of mUltiple disciplines with interest deriving from many sources-from basic understanding of psychophysiology to a desire for enhanced self-awareness. The goals of biofeedback are to develop an increased awareness of relevant internal physiological functions, to establish control over these functions, to generalize control from an experimental or clinical setting to everyday life, and to focus attention on mind/body integration. Biofeedback is explored in many different settings. In the university, biofeed back equipment and applications can be found in the departments of experi mental and clinical psychology, counseling, physiology, biology, education, and the theater arts, as well as in the health service (student infirmary). Outside the university, biofeedback may be found in different departments of hospitals (such as physical medicine), private clinics, education and self-awareness groups, psychotherapy practices, and elsewhere. Its growth is still expanding, and excite ment is still rising as a result of biofeedback's demonstration that autonomic functions can be brought under voluntary control and that the long-standing arti ficial separation between mind, body, and consciousness can be disproven.
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Erik Peper, Sonia Ancoli, Michele Quinn
Pages 1-4
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General Overview of Biofeedback: An Introduction
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- David Shapiro, Richard S. Surwit
Pages 7-46
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- Edward B. Blanchard, Larry D. Young
Pages 77-110
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- Elmer E. Green, Alyce M. Green, E. Dale Walters
Pages 125-139
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- Erik Peper, Kenneth R. Pelletier, Barbara Tandy
Pages 151-162
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Complementary Techniques
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Front Matter
Pages 163-165
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- Charles F. Stroebel, Bernard C. Glueck
Pages 207-222
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- J. Douglas Gibb, Eric Stephan, C. E. Tapie Rohm Jr.
Pages 223-227
Editors and Affiliations
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San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Erik Peper
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University of California, San Francisco, USA
Sonia Ancoli
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Psychophysiological Treatment Center, Oxnard, USA
Michele Quinn