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Behavioral Cardiology with Emphasis on the Family Heart Study

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The relationships between medicine and psychology may be traced,to antiquity; more specifically, references to the exquisite relationship between mind and body, including one’s health and one’s behavior, will be found in humankind’s earliest writings, dating back to 5000 B.C. It is, however, an interesting historical fact that in the mountains or early volumes and in the scores or new volumes written in recent times by such leaders in modern psychosomatic medicine as Sigmund Freud, Flanders Dunbar, Franz Alexander, and others, up to the middle of the 20th century the major evidence for the existence of psychosomatic relationships was anecdotal. That is, this past and very recent evidence consists primarily of interesting case histories and such isolated physiologic demonstrations as those of the effect of emotions on gastric function described by Beaumont (1833) in the 19th century and elicited in the subject Tom described by Wolf and Wolff (1947) in the middle of the 20th century.

The studies described in this chapter were supported in part by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Grants HL20910, HL07332, HL24233, and HL07295.

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  1. Department of Medical Psychology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    Joseph D. Matarazzo

  2. Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    William E. Connor

  3. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98105, USA

    Steven G. Fey

  4. Department of Medical Psychology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Porland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    Timothy P. Carmody

  5. Department of Medical Psychology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    Diane K. Pierce

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    Laurence H. Baker

  8. Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    Sonja L. Connor

  9. Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

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Matarazzo, J.D. et al. (1982). Behavioral Cardiology with Emphasis on the Family Heart Study. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_14

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