Description

In Mind-Body Medicine: The New Science of Optimal Health, you'll study this subject in compelling depth, with the expert guidance of Professor Jason M. Satterfield of the University of California, San Francisco. These 36 eye-opening lectures offer you a comprehensive overview of the field, providing rigorous answers to the questions of what makes us sick, what makes us well, and what we can do about it. You'll look closely at the anatomical and biological systems through which what is “outside” in the environment gets “inside” to affect our minds and bodies. You'll also examine recent research on subjects ranging from the impact our emotions and psychology have on health to the crucial roles that social, cultural, and behavioral factors play. And you'll learn about effective mind-body treatments for numerous common medical conditions and diseases.

Course Curriculum

1 Weaving the Biopsychosocial Braid 2 Vital Signs—Defining Health and Illness 3 Fight or Flight vs. Rest and Digest 4 Simmering Soup—The Neuroendocrine System 5 Deploying the Troops—Basic Immunology 6 Nature vs. Nurture—Genes, Health, and Disease 7 Forget Me Not—Cognitive Function 8 Mind over Matter—Cognition in Everyday Life 9 Emotions Revealed—Psychology of Emotions 10 Agony and Ecstasy—Biology of Emotion 11 What’s Your EQ, and How Can You Improve It? 12 What’s Your Type? Personality and Health 13 An Apple a Day—Behavior and Disease Prevention 14 Staying on the Wagon—Making Changes That Last 15 Ease the Burn—Modern-Day Stress and Coping 16 The Iceberg—Visible and Hidden Identity 17 Ties That Bind—Relationships and Health 18 Building Bridges—Intimacy and Relationships 19 Touched by Grace—Spirituality and Health 20 A Matter of Class—Socioeconomics and Health 21 A Cog in the Wheel—Occupational Stress 22 The Power of Place—Communities and Health 23 The Master Plan—Public Health and Policy 24 Heart and Soul—Cardiovascular Disease I 25 Heart and Soul—Cardiovascular Disease II 26 The Big C—Cancer and Mind-Body Medicine 27 Bugs, Drugs, and Buddha—Psychoneuroimmunology 28 Fire in the Belly—The GI System 29 Obesity—America’s New Epidemic 30 The Strain in Pain Lies Mainly in the Brain 31 Catching Your Zs—Sleep and Health 32 Chasing Zebras—Somatoform Disorders 33 Seeing the Glass Half Empty—Depression 34 Silencing the Scream—Understanding Anxiety 35 Lingering Wounds—Trauma, Resilience, Growth 36 Tomorrow’s Biopsychosocial Medicine

Trainer Expertise

BODY MIND HEALING 446

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