Stress, disease and primary medical care / Zeev Ben-Sira.

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Introduction--CHAPTER ONE: THE FUNCTION OF MEDICAL CARE IN THE STRESS-DISEASE RELATIONSHIP:- 1. The coping-stress-disease relationship: a further exploration--2. "Potency": a further link in the stress-coping relationship--3. Medical helpseeking: a search for potency compensation--4. The coping-stress-disease relationship: The preventive helth viewpoint--CHAPTER TWO: STRESS ALLEVIATION AND PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE: MANIFEST AND LATENT GOALS IN PHYSICIAN UTILIZATION:- 1. The primary-care practitioner's role: A compensatory resource--2. The function of the physician's affective behavior--3. The functional uniqueness of the doctor's affective behavior--4. The enduring effect of the doctor's affective behavior--5. Some concluding remarks: The centrality of the physician's affective behavior--CHAPTER THREE: PRIMARY CARE PRACTITIONERS' LATENT GOALS AND INCLINATION TO DEMONSTRATE AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR:- 1. Inclination to demonstrate affective behavior: Therapeutic importance and contradictions--2. Power enhancement vs. affective behavior--3. Family medicine: An emerging person-orientated speciality?--4. The reward eliciting function of affective behavior--5. The doctor'sstatus and the authority gap-securing function of the "bad patient" label--6. Conclusion: Incongruence between instrumental and affective behavior: A clash between manifest and latent goals of primary care practitioners--CHAPTER FOUR: THE EFFECT OF THE CLASH OF LATENT GOALS: A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF MUTUAL FRUSTRATIONS:- 1. The significance of the patient's awareness of the doctor's latent goals--2. Compensatory agents--3. Lay autonomy and control: Reality or utopia?--4. Conclusion: a vicious circle of frustrations--CHAPTER FIVE: TOWARD A HYPOTHESIS OF THE "COUNTER-HEALTH-PROMOTING" EFFECT OF PRIMARY CARE FRUSTRATION:- 1. Inherent frustrations in the doctor-patient relationship: A summary--2. A paradigm of the "counter-healthpromoting" effect of primary care frustration.