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Articles investigate such topics as health psychology, natural disasters, gender difference and stress, the lives of people with AIDS, new approaches to stress management, and stress management programs in the workplace.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Introduction Stress and Coping--Some Current Issues and Controversies(p. 1)
• Section I Stress and Some of Its Effects(p. 13)
• 1 Selections from the Stress of Life(p. 17)
• 2 Life-Change Patterns Surrounding Illness Experience(p. 36)
• 3 Ethology and Stress Diseases(p. 45)
• 4 On the Concept of Psychological Stress(p. 58)
• 5 Settings, Measures, and Themes: an Integrative Review of Some Research on Social-Psychological Factors in Stress(p. 74)
• Section II Stress and the Environment(p. 77)
• 6 Voodoo Death(p. 80)
• 7 Differences and Similarities(p. 95)
• 8 The Living World(p. 117)
• 9 The Psychological Stresses of Intensive Care Unit Nursing(p. 131)
• 10 Environmental Stress and the Adaptive Process(p. 132)
• Section III The Nature of Coping(p. 141)
• 11 Cognitive and Coping Processes in Emotion(p. 145)
• 12 Regulatory Devices of the Ego under Major Stress(p. 159)
• 13 Religious Systems as Culturally Constituted Defense Mechanisms(p. 174)
• 14 Obsessive-Compulsive Style(p. 182)
• 15 The Key Cause -- Type a Behavior Pattern(p. 203)
• Section IV Coping with Transient Life Crises(p. 213)
• 16 Factors Influencing Adjustment of Burn Patients during Hospitalization(p. 217)
• 17 Stress, Distress, and Ego Defenses: Psychoendocrine Response to Impending Breast Tumor Biopsy(p. 242)
• 18 Some Modes of Adaptation: Defense(p. 244)
• 19 The Management of Abhorrent Behavior--Survival Period(p. 258)
• 20 Adaptive Personality Changes(p. 272)
• 21 Dehumanization: a Composite Psychological Defense in Relation to Modern War(p. 285)
• Section V Coping with Death and Separation(p. 307)
• 22 The Terror of Death(p. 310)
• 23 Reactions to the Imminence of Death(p. 324)
• 24 Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief(p. 334)
• Bibliographical Note(p. 347)
• 25 Behavioral Observations on Parents Anticipating the Death of a Child(p. 373)
• 26 Grieving for a Lost Home(p. 375)
• Supplementary Readings(p. 389)
• References(p. 391)
• Index(p. 419)

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CHOICE Review

This is a second edition of the authors' well-known 1977 anthology. Three quarters of the selections are new for this edition. Except for the introductory chapter and section overviews, all of the selections are reprints of articles or book chapters, minimally edited so that the reference citation format is uniform. References are combined at the end and a useful author and subject index is provided. The editors, both well-known researchers in the stress field, have selected a broad, varied, and engaging group of articles ranging from theoretical and empirical research papers to clinical and anecdotal reports. The material is well-suited to the intended audience (undergraduate students), but accessible enough to appeal to a general adult readership. This anthology will be redundant in extensive university collections, but it is strongly recommended for small colleges, community colleges, and public libraries. Well-stocked libraries would be better off acquiring collections of original papers such as Leo Goldberger & Shlomo Breznitz's Handbook of Stress (1982) and the volumes in the ``Stress and Anxiety'' series, edited by Charles Spielberger and Irwin Sarason.-A.L. Porterfield, Oberlin College