Mind, Body, and Medicine – Raphael N. Melmed Gecertificeerd

Writing from the unusual perspective of an internist who heads a behavioral medicine unit in a major academic medical center, Raphael Melmed analyzes the mind-body interplay from a physiological viewpoint while drawing on diverse disciplines to demonstrate in a well-rounded way the scientific basis and clinical picture of psychosomatic disorders. He provides a comprehensive analysis of how stress mediates psychosomatic conditions and – for the first time – a description of the physiological basis of the pla…