Overview
- Editors:
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Wolfgang Linden
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Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxii
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- David M. Lawson, Michelle Craske
Pages 13-34
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- Donna Romano White, Norman M. White
Pages 35-62
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- J. Allan Best, Patricia E. Wainwright, David E. Mills, Susan A. Kirkland
Pages 63-99
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- P. H. Van Oot, T. D. Borkovec
Pages 101-140
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- Nanette M. Frautschi, Margaret A. Chesney
Pages 141-162
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- Harry S. Shabsin, William E. Whitehead
Pages 193-220
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- Ruth V. E. Grunau, Kenneth D. Craig
Pages 257-279
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- Kelly D. Brownell, Edward Lichtenstein, G. Alan Marlatt, G. Terence Wilson
Pages 281-320
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Back Matter
Pages 321-325
About this book
A "New Looking Glass" for Behavioral Medicine In 1984, John Briggs, a science writer and specialist in interdisciplinary studies teaching at the New School for Social Research, and F. David Peat, a physicist who was for many years a fellow with the National Research Council of Canada, published a book about the revolutions that were taking place in physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and neu rophysiology and about the scientists whose new theories were changing our understanding about the nature of the universe. The title of their book was Looking Glass Universe, after Lewis Carroll's classic story of Alice and her friends, Through the Looking Glass. Briggs and Peat's book is a well-written, challenging volume about human beings and how they think about old problems in new and sometimes startling ways. I mention Briggs and Peat's book only partially because I happen to have a personal interest in the potential applications of new ways of looking at and thinking about nature and data derived from modern physics and systems theory for health psychology and behavioral medi cine (e. g. , Schwartz, 1984). In a letter Wolfgang Linden wrote to me on January 23,1987, he shared with me (at my request) his rough thoughts about his personal goals for this book.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Wolfgang Linden