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Author Staudenmayer, Herman.

Title Environmental illness : myth and reality / Herman Staudenmayer
Published Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, [1999]
©1999

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 MELB  615.902 Sta/Eim  AVAILABLE
Description 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents 1. What is "environmental illness"? -- 2. Toxicogenic theory -- 3. Unsubstantiated diagnoses and treatments -- 4. Studies supporting the psychogenic theory -- 5. Assessment of the toxicogenic research program -- 6. Psychogenic theory -- 7. Placebo and somatization -- 8. Learned sensitivity -- 9. The stress-response -- 10. Panic attacks and anxiety disorders -- 11. Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder -- 12. The limbic system and trauma -- 13. Personality disorders -- 14. Iatrogenic illness: exploitation and harm -- 15. Treatment -- 16. Politics -- 17. Future directions -- App. A. A methodology of scientific research programs -- App. B. Court rulings unfavorable to environmental illness
Summary Several hundred individuals who believed they were suffering from environmental illness have been evaluated or treated by Herman Staudenmayer since the 1970s. Staudenmayer believed the symptoms harming his patients actually had psychophysiological origins - based more in fear of a hostile world than any suspected toxins contained in the environment. Staudenmayer's years of research, clinical work - and successful care - are now summarized in Environmental Illness: Myth and Reality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-367) and index
Subject Multiple chemical sensitivity.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Medical misconceptions.
Mental illness -- Environmental aspects.
Chemicals -- Health aspects.
Environmental Illness -- psychology.
Environmental Illness -- etiology.
Environmental Illness -- therapy.
Psychotherapy -- methods.
LC no. 98008694
ISBN 1566703050 alkaline paper