Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Love, Fear, And Health How Our Attachments To Others Shape Health And Health Care 1
5. Introduction 3
6. Section One.Vexing Health Care
7. 1. What Is Health Care? 19
8. 2. Why Else Do We Get Sick? 27
9. 3. Health Happens Between Us 45
10. Summary Of Section One 56
11. Section Two Attachment And Health
12. 4. What Is Attachment? 61
13. 5. Attachment Sculpts The Brain 75
14. 6. All Grown Up And Still Attached 82
15. 7. Depression 110
16. 8. Attachment Is A Response To Stress 118
17. 9. Why Are So Many Of Us Fat, Drunk, Stationary Smokers? 133
18. 10. I Don’T Know What You Have, But I’Ve Seen It Before And You Have It Bad 149
19. 11. Trouble In The Patient-Provider Relationship 167
20. Summary Of Section Two 175
21. Section Three Relational Health Care
22. Introduction To Section Three: Principles Of Adaptation And Change 181
23. 12. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Anxiety Interferes 183
24. 13. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Avoidance Interferes 199
25. 14. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Fearful Attachment Interferes 213
26. 15. Changing The System 229
27. 16. Becoming More Secure 238
28. 17. Beyond Health Care Relationships: A Wider Attachment Perspective On Health 245
29. Afterword 253
30. Notes 255
31. References 285
32. Index 321