Love, Fear, and Health

Robert Maunder is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and the head of research in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital. Jonathan Hunter is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and the head of the consultation-liaison division in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto.

Introduction Section One: Vexing Health Care 1. What is Health Care? 2. Why Else Do We Get Sick? 3. Health Happens Between Us Summary of Part One Section Two: Attachment & Health Introduction to Section Two: What is Attachment? 4. Attachment Sculpts the Brain 5. All Grown Up and Still Attached 6. Feeling secure is Good For You 7. Depression 8. Attachment is a Response to Stress 9. Why Are So Many of Us Fat, Drunk, Stationary Smokers? 10. I Don't Know What You Have But I've Seen It Before and You Have It Bad 11. Trouble in the Patient-Provider Relationship Summary of Part Two Section Three: Relational Health Care Introduction to Section Three: Principles of Adaptation and Change 12. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Anxiety Interferes 13. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Avoidance Interferes 14. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Fearful Attachment Interferes 15. Changing the System 16. Becoming More Secure 17. Beyond Health Care Relationships: A Wider attachment Perspective on Health Afterword