International Perspectives on Self-Regulation and Health

300 Pages·1991·8.72 MB·English

by  A. Ronald Seifert, John G. Carlson (auth.), John G. Carlson, A. Ronald Seifert (eds.)

International Perspectives on
Self-Regulation and Health
THE PLENUM SERIES IN BEHA VIORAL PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
AND MEDICINE
Series Editor:
William J. Ray, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS IN BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
Edited by Wolfgang Linden
HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH METHODS IN CARDIOVASCULAR
BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
Edited by Neil Schneiderman, Stephen M. Weiss, and Peter G. Kaufmann
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES·ON SELF-REGULATION AND HEALTH
Edited by John G. Carlson and A. Ronald Seifert
PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Conceptual Guidelines for the Clinician
James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Schizophrenia, Depression, Anxiety, and Substance Abuse
James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
International Perspectives on
Self-Regulation and Health
Sponsored by the Association for
Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
Edited by
John G. Carlson
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
and
A. Ronald Seifert
Behavioral Institute of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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I n t e r n a t i o n a l perspec t ives on s e l f - r e g u l a t i o n and hea l t h / sponsored
by the Assoc ia t ion f o r Appl ied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback ;
edi t e d by John G. Carlson and A. Ronald S e l f e r t .
p. cm. — (Plenum s e r i e s in behav iora l psychophysiology and
medicine)
" F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l Conference on Biobehav iora l S e l f - R e g u l a t i o n
and Hea l th . . . held at the Hawaiian Regent Hote l in Hono lu lu ,
November 1 8 - 2 0 , 1 9 8 7 " — P r e f .
Includes b i b l i o g r a p h i c a l re ferences and Index.
ISBN 978-1-4899-2598-5
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-Congresses. 3. Psychoneuroimmuno1ogy—Congresses. I . C a r l s o n ,
John G. I I . S e l f e r t , A. Ronald. I I I . Assoc ia t ion f o r Appl ied
Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. I V . I n t e r n a t i o n a l Conference on
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Hawai i ) V. S e r i e s .
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Contributors
Robert Ader, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Kenji Akiyama, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medical
School, Okayama 700, Japan
Niels Birbaumer, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen I, Federal Republic of Germany
James G. Broton, Cresap Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Isolde von Billow, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen I, Federal Republic of Germany
Anthony Canavan, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen I, Federal Republic of Germany
John G. Carlson, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Ma-
noa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Thomas Elbert, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen I, Federal Republic of Germany
Keith Fulton, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Program, Bay-
lor College of MediCine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
G. F. Gebhart, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Uni-
versity of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Paul Grossman, Psychophysiology Research Group, University of Frei-
burg, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
Nicholas R. S. Hall, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine,
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33613, USA
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vi CONTRIBuroRS
Midori Hiramatsu, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medi-
cal School, Okayama 700, Japan
Kun Hou Huang, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine,
100700 Beijing, People's Republic of China
Alan J. Husband, Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle,
Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
Hideaki Kabuto, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medical
School, Okayama 700, Japan
Edward S. Katkin, Department of Psychology, State University of New
York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-2500, USA
Robert M. Kelsey, Department of Psychology, State University of New
York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
Maurice G. King, Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle,
Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
Robert Kvarnes, Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C.,
USA
Michael J. Kwon, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medi-
cal School, Okayama 700, Japan
Wolfgang Larbig, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen 1, Federal Republic of Germany
Anne Linden, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen 1, Federal Republic of Germany
Werner Lutzenberger, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen,
D 7400 Tiibingen 1, Federal Republic of Germany
F. J. McGuigan, Institute for Stress Management, United States Interna-
tional University, San Diego, California 92131, USA
Neal Miller, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut 06520, USA
Mirna Mitra, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Program, Bay-
lor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Akitane MoTi, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medical
School, Okayama 700, Japan
Brigitte Rockstroh, Psychological Institute, University of Tiibingen, D 7400
Tiibingen 1, Federal Republic of Germany
CONTRIBUTORS vii
J. Peter Rosenfeld, Cresap Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern Uni-
versity, Evanston, lllinois 60208, USA
Masamichi Satoh, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceuti-
cal Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan
A. Ronald Seifert, Behavioral Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia 30342,
USA
Masakatsu Shimada, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University
Medical School, Okayama 700, Japan
James E. Skinner, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Program,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Ronald L. Webster, Department of Psychology, Hollins College, Roanoke,
Virginia 24020, USA
Lang Yan Xia, Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 100013
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Isao Yokoi, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medical
School, Okayama 700, Japan
Foreword
An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead of doing
something to the patients, they teach them to do something for them-
selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to do something to
cope with his or her health problem can produce a significant reduction
in the stress that may have contributed to that problem and in the
additional stress that it produces.
While the idea that the mind can playa role in the health of the
body and some therapeutic techniques based on this idea are not new,
remarkable scientific advances have been made recently in the area of
self-regulation and health. There has been an exciting and rapidly accel-
erating increase in our basic science knowledge of homeostasis, or, in
other words, how the body regulates itself in order to maintain health.
Technical and conceptual advances are increasing our knowledge of the
details of such regulation at all levels-cells, tissues, organs, organ sys-
tems, and the body as a whole. We are learning how the competing
demands of different elements at each of these levels are adjusted by the
brain, which, with its neural and humoral mechanisms, is the supreme
organ of integration of the body.
A simple example is when the self, centered in the brain, perceives a
life-or-death emergency situation that demands extreme exertion from
the skeletal muscles in acts of either fighting or fleeing. Then many
complex mechanisms are brought into play, a small sample of which
includes an increase in blood pressure above normally regulated levels
and a shunting of blood away from the skin and the digestive system to
the skeletal muscles, increasing the supply they need for maximum
exertion. Some of these mechanisms are known to have injurious long-
term effects, but under the primitive conditions in which people evolved,
the afflictions of older age were trivial compared with whether the person
was killed before having children.
This book will show how some of these physiological mechanisms
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for adapting to primitive conditions, and even some of the responses of
the immune system, can be modified by learning which has been found
to have a more profound influence on bodily processes than previously
had been realized. Such learning can contribute to health by helping the
person to adapt the control of primitive mechanisms in the body to the
changed conditions of modem life.
A picture of the brain that emerges in this book is not of a merely
passive, complex switchboard but of a system that can exert self-reg-
ulatory control over its many inputs (including pain) as well as over
outputs (such as peptides and hormones) as it plays a key role in inte-
grating the physiological functions and the behavior of the person. Ex-
citing examples of these increases in knowledge, their therapeutic ap-
plications, and promise for future advances in knowledge and therapy
are presented in various chapters of this book, which is exceptional in its
scope of interdisciplinary integration. Also illustrated is how modem
advances in measuring instruments can be used to help people become
better aware of what is happening to certain vital functions of their
bodies and hence become better able to learn to control them.
The international conference on which this book is based has
helped to integrate behavioral medicine as an internationally developing
area of research and therapeutic application.
NEAL MILLER
Yale University