Autogenic Training

Micah R. Sadigh, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is a diplomate in Franklian Psychology/Existential Analysis, and holds membership in the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the American Psychosomatic Society.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword by Hugo Twaddle, M.D.

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Chronic Pain and Stress

1. The Dimensions of Chronic Pain Syndrome: A Brief Review of the Literature

2. Stress and Pain

3. Methods of Stress Management

Part II: History and Principles of Autogenic Training

4. History and Basic Principles

5. Medical and Psychological Screening

6. Requirements for Achieving the Autogenic State

Part III: The Standard and Advanced Exercises and Clinical Applications of Autogenic Training

7. The Preliminary Exercises

8. The First Standard Exercise: Heaviness

9. The Second Standard Exercise: Warmth

10. The Third Standard Exercise: Heart

11. The Fourth Standard Exercise: Respiration

12. The Fifth Standard Exercise: Abdominal Warmth

13. The Sixth Standard Exercise: Forehead Cooling

14. Advanced Autogenic Training

15. Autogenic Training and Biofeedback (Psychophysiological Feedback)

16. Sleep, Insomnia, and Pain

17. Autogenic Training for Sleep Enhancement

18. Autogenic Neutralization as Psychophysiological Psychotherapy

19. Autogenic Training and Autogenic Abreaction as Treatments for Post-Traumatic Nightmares

20. Autogenic Training as Palliative Care

21. Questions and Answers

Appendix A: The Autogenic Pain and Tension Checklists (Forms A and B)

Appendix B: The Autogenic Training Progress Index

Appendix C: Fibromyalgia and Psychobiological Disregulation—A Theoretical Formulation

References

Index