Hope and other deterrents to illness

Gottschalk, L.A.

American Journal of PsychoTherapy 39(4): 515-524

1985


ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9564
PMID: 4083371
Document Number: 251868
Animal and human research have demonstrated that events during early development influence vulnerability to physical and mental illness. In addition, the effectiveness of the coping methods used to deal with the problems of living can affect susceptibility to illness. The intervening mechanisms between stressful life experiences and illness appear to involve physiological homeostasis and immune competence.

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