Foreword by Michael Wilkes	6
	Foreword by Frederick S. Sierles	8
	Preface	10
	Contributors	12
	Poetry Credits	15
	Contents	16
	Part 1 Mind-Body Interactions in Health and Disease	18
	1 Brain, Mind, and Behavior	20
	2 Families, Relationships, and Health	40
	3 Birth, Childhood and Adolescence	48
	4 Early Adulthood and the Middle Years	64
	5 Old Age	74
	6 Death, Dying, and Grief	94
	7 Chronic Pain	108
	Part 2 Patient Behavior	122
	8 Stress and Illness	124
	9 Addictive Disorders	134
	10 Psychodynamic Approaches to Human Behavior	150
	11 Facilitating Health Behavior Change	162
	12 Human Sexuality	170
	Part 3 The Physician’s Role	182
	13 Medical Student and Physician Well-Being	184
	14 Medical Ethics	194
	Part 4 Physician-Patient Interactions	202
	15 The Physician-Patient Relationship	204
	16 Communicating with Patients	216
	17 Diagnostic Reasoning	234
	18 Patient Assessment	242
	19 Recognizing and Treating Psychopathology in Primary Care	254
	20 Managing Difficult Patients	264
	21 The Humanities and the Practice of Medicine	274
	Part 5 Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care	282
	22 Culturally Competent Health Care	284
	23 Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine	294
	24 The Impact of Social Inequalities on Healthcare	306
	25 Health Services in the United States	322
	Part 6 Appendices	338
	A USMLE Type Questions	340
	B Answers to USMLE Type Questions	350
	Index	358