Mending the Broken Heart: A Psychological Perspective on Preventing and Treating Heart Disease

Demonstrates the strong connection between stress and heart disease and develops the concept of the cardiac personality, an expansion of the Type A personality but with more attention paid to the patient's childhood experiences, work and love life, and everyday behavior. Also discusses psychological problems induced because of the patient's heart disease and how patients emotionally experience medical intervention, and shows how psychotherapists and physicians can work together to meet patients' needs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.