Mind/Body Integration : Essential Readings in Biofeedback

Section I General Overview of Biofeedback: An Introduction.- 1 Learned Control of Physiological Function and Disease.- 2 Control of States of Consciousness: Attainment through External Feedback Augmenting Control of Psychophysiological Variables.- 3 Biofeedback and Physiological Patterning in Human Emotion and Consciousness.- 4 Problems in Biofeedback Training: An Experiential Analogy-Urination.- 5 Clinical Applications of Biofeedback Training: A Review of Evidence.- 6 The Possible Uses of Biofeedback in Education.- 7 Passive Attention: The Gateway to Consciousness and Autonomic Control.- 8 Biofeedback for Mind/Body Self-Regulation: Healing and Creativity.- 9 The Two Endpoints of an EEG Continuum of Meditation-Alpha/Theta and Fast Beta.- 10 Biofeedback Training: Holistic and Transpersonal Frontiers.- Section II. Complementary Techniques.- 11 About the Methods of Autogenic Therapy.- 12 Progressive Relaxation Training: Overview. Procedure, and Implications for Self-Regulation.- 13 Beliefs and Attitudes: Their Significance in Therapeutics.- 14 Biofeedback Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: An Ultimate Placebo?.- 15 Belief in Biofeedback for the Control of Short-Term Stress.- Section III Technical Considerations in Biofeedback.- 16 A Beginner's Behavioral Test Guide to Biofeedback Instrumentation.- 17 Common Errors Made during Biofeedback Training and Research Studies.- 18 Biofeedback Equipment.- 19 Electrodes.- 20 Standard Specifications for the Description of Biofeedback Instruments.- 21 A Bioelectric Glossary.- Section IV. Electroencephalography Biofeedback.- 22 Brain Rhythms and the EEG.- 23 Electroencephalography.- 24 Autoregulation of the EEG Alpha Rhythm: A Program for the Study of Consciousness.- 25 Detection of EEG Abnormalities with Feedback Stimulation.- 26 Feedback Regulation of the Alpha Electroencephalogram Activity through Control of the Internal and External Parameters.- 27 On the Mechanisms of the Feedback Control of Human Brain-Wave Activity.- 28 Alpha Biofeedback Training: Some Methodological Issues and Future Considerations.- 29 Effects of Central Cortical EEG Feedback Training on Incidence of Poorly Controlled Seizures.- Section V. Electromyography Biofeedback.- 30 Muscle Action and the Sensory System.- 31 Control and Training of Individual Motor Units.- 32 Facts versus Myths in EMG Biofeedback.- 33 Dysponesis: A Neurophysiologic Factor in Functional Disorders.- 34 Cultivated Low Arousal-An Antistress Response?.- 35 EMG Training and Headache Reduction: Some Methodological Issues.- 36 Paraprofessional Relaxation Training Technicians in a Biofeedback Clinic.- 37 EMG Biofeedback in Physical Therapy.- Section VI. Cardiovascular Biofeedback I-Temperature.- 38 Feedback-Aided Self-Regulation of Skin Temperature with a Single Feedback Locus: Acquisition and Reversal Training.- 39 Thermal Biofeedback Training in Children with Headache.- 40 Psychosomatic Self-Regulation of Migraine Headaches.- Section VII. Electrodermal Biofeedback.- 41 Galvanic Skin Reflex.- 42 GSR Biofeedback in Psychotherapy: Some Clinical Observations.- Section VIII. Cardiovascular Biofeedback II-Hypertension.- 43 Blood Pressure.- 44 12-Month Follow-Up of Yoga and Biofeedback in the Management of Hypertension.- 45 Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga and Biofeedback in Management of Hypertension.- Section IX Other Applications.- 46 Operant Conditioning of Rectosphincteric Responses in the Treatment of Fecal Incontinence.- 47 The Use of Biofeedback Devices in the Treatment of Bruxism.- 48 Economical Biofeedback Devices.- Conclusion.- Name Index.