The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease. Paul Martin

Spaceflight, exams and other nastiness

       Does it matter?

       What can the immune system do to the mind?

       Depression

       Immune conditioning

       Immune conditioning and disease

       Some allergic history revisited

       The strange story of the left-handed brain

       The wonderful world of herpes

       5 The Demon Stress

       What is stress?

       The biology of stress

       Stress, immunity and health

       The quality of stress

       Control, control and control

       The joy of stress

       The stress-seekers

       6 Other People

       Hell is other people? – relationships as stressors

       Hell is alone? – the harmful effects of isolation

       Michael Henchard’s will

       How does it work?

       Social relationships and immunity

       The lonely future

       7 The Wages of Work

       The toad work

       Who suffers and why?

       The scourge of unemployment

       8 Sick at Heart

       Hearts and minds

       The mind in sudden cardiac death and heart disease

       Coronary-prone personalities and heart disease

       The Type A behaviour pattern

       Type A – the evidence

       Anger and hostility

       How does it work?

       Biological reactivity and the Type A person

       9 The Mind of the Crab

       The mind in cancer

       Is there a cancer-prone personality?

       Some fictional Type Cs

       Psychological influences on survival

       How does it work?

       10 Encumbered with Remedies

       Relax!

       Exercise!

       Those little pink pills

       Psychoneuroimmunology and AIDS

       Imagery, miracle cures and other exotica

       Kill or cure?

       11 Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine

       That old mind – body problem

       The grip of dualism

       Some ancient history

       René Descartes and the separation of mind from body

       Descartes’ demise

       12 A Fresh Pair of Lenses

       Development

       Mothers and offspring