PS271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Victim Blaming, Natan Sharansky, Asthma
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Chapter 12 stress, adjustment and health differences disease -prone personalities. When the psychoanalytic physician franz alexander who had studied in berlin psychoanalytic institute in the 20"s. Psychosomatic medicine: is based on the idea that the psyche (mind) affects the soma (body) In the 20"s and 30"s many interesting ideas about psychosomatic theorizing of freud. Personality can influence the likelihood of engaging in behaviours such as smoking and drinking that have. More difficult than observing such phenomena is explaining them using modern scientific understanding. The first major link between personality and health involves health behaviours- what people do. Eg people with certain personalities take greater risks with their health and thus die sooner, not as simple as this but an example. Anyone could be hit buy a car or run off the road by a drunk driver sometimes tragedy is just bad luck.
