List of figures ............................................. ix
List of tables ............................................. xii
List of boxes ............................................. xiii
Acknowledgements ............................................ xv
1 The two philosophies: health, disease, medicine and
psychotherapy ................................................ 1
2 The body's mind: psychoneuroimmunology, stress and
adaptive response ........................................... 30
3 Personality, disease and the meaning of infornet
dysregulation ............................................... 70
4 Networks and their properties .............................. 113
5 The causes of dysregulation: associative learning, food
intolerance and the effects of stress throughout the
lifespan ................................................... 147
6 The causes of dysregulation: supervised learning,
repetitive strain injury, attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression .......... 162
7 The causes of dysregulation: asthma and precursors to
specific disease ........................................... 194
8 Three different types of psychologically mediated
therapy: placebos and the art of medicine, psychotherapy
and complementary and alternative medicine ................. 207
9 Therapeutic mechanisms ..................................... 247
10 Finding the pattern: health in modern society .............. 280
11 Infornet theory in perspective ............................. 304
References ................................................. 312
Index ...................................................... 339
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