Love, Fear, and Health: How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care

by Robert Maunder, Jonathan Hunter, Jonathan Hunter MD, et al.

Book Overview

Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology, and evolutionary biology to explain how understanding attachment - the ways in which people seek security in their close relationships - can transform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442615605
• ISBN13: 9781442615601
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher