Remen, Rachel Naomi (1996). Kitchen table wisdom: stories that heal. New York: Riverhead.

Remen, Rachel Naomi (2000). My grandfather's blessings: stories of strength, refuge, and belonging. New York: Riverhead.

Asthma

To Link to Madrid articles, visit Pediatric Asthma

Madrid, A. (1991). Maternal-infant bonding and pediatric asthma: an initial investigation. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 5(4), 346-358.

Madrid, A., & Pennington, D. (2000). Maternal-infant bonding and asthma. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 14(3-4), 279-289.

Madrid, A., Skolek, S., & Ames, R. (in press). Asthmatic children, bonding, and hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.

Xu, B., Pekkanen, J., & Jarvelin, M. R. (2000). Obstetric complications and asthma in childhood. J Asthma, 37(7), 589-594.

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Chronic Fatigue

Johnson, Hillary. (1996) Osler's Web: Inside the labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic . New York, Crown.

Interview with author Hillary Johnson, a journalist who was diagnosed with CFS in 1986 and who spent 9 years exploring the clinical evolution and history of CFS. Her book also delves into the politics involved in trying to understand the origins of this disease.

A commentary on this book, which has received negative reviews by some for its criticism of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), among others, who have downplayed or ignored this disease, or who have labelled it as a psychiatric illness.

Go to Events: January 2005 to download handouts, request an audiotape (lecture, January 2005) or find links to a local support group for Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia.

Depression

Whitfield, Charles L. (2004) The Truth about Depression: Choices for Healing. Deerfield Beach, Florida. Health Communications Inc.

Oriented for the lay reader, this book references over 250 articles linking trauma and depression, and describes our understanding of how trauma affects the brain and impacts symptoms. The author also describes the numerous research studies demonstrating little difference between antidepressants and placebo, providing a perspective for understanding why antidepressants seem to offer so little benefit to so many people despite strong promotion by the pharmaceutical industry. Whitfield is a physician who has worked as a psychotherapist for over 20 years.

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Type 1 Diabetes

Dahlquist, G. (2001). Environmental factors and type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 24(1), 180-182.

Dahlquist, G., Bennich, S. S., & Kallen, B. (1996). Intrauterine growth pattern and risk of childhood onset insulin dependent (type I) diabetes: population based case-control study. BMJ, 313(7066), 1174-1177.

Dahlquist, G. G. (1997). Viruses and other perinatal exposures as initiating events for beta- cell destruction. Ann Med, 29(5), 413-417.

Dahlquist, G. G., Patterson, C., & Soltesz, G. (1999). Perinatal risk factors for childhood type 1 diabetes in Europe. The EURODIAB Substudy 2 Study Group. Diabetes Care, 22(10), 1698-1702.

Daniels, G. E. (1936). Emotional and instinctual factors in diabetes mellitus. Am J Psychiatry, 93, 711-724.

Hinkle, L. E. J., Evans, F. M., Wolf, E., Conger, G., Edwards, C. J., & Pugh, B. (1951). IV: Life history of three persons with relatively mild, stable diabetes, and relation of significant experiences in their lives to the onset and course of the disease. Psychosom Med, 13(3), 184-202.

McKinney, P. A., Parslow, R., Gurney, K., Law, G., Bodansky, H. J., & Williams, D. R. R. (1997). Antenatal risk factors for childhood diabetes mellitus: a case control study of medical record data in Yorkshire, UK. Diabetologia, 40, 933-939.

Mead, V. P. (2004) A new model for understanding the role of environmental factors in the origins of chronic illness: a case study of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Medical Hypotheses 63(6), 1035-1046 (160 references). View or Download PDF (250K).

Mead, V. P. (2003) Looking at the role of environmental factors and hypotheses regarding origins of disease. An application of theory to an example of type 1 diabetes. Web article.

Patterson, C. C., Carson, D. J., Hadden, D. R., Waugh, N. R., & Cole, S. K. (1994). A case-control investigation of perinatal risk factors for childhood IDDM in northern Ireland and Scotland. Diabetes Care, 17(5), 376-381.

Surwit, R. S., & Schneider, M. S. (1993). Role of stress in the etiology and treatment of diabetes mellitus. Psychosom Med, 55(4), 380-393.

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Multiple Sclerosis

Bach, O., & Wild, H. J. (1990). [Life stress events preceding illness episodes in multiple sclerosis and ulcerative colitis--a comparison]. Z Gesamte Hyg, 36(8), 442-443.

Maser, C. (1969). [The perinatal period of multiple sclerosis patients]. Schweiz Med Wochenschr, 99(50), 1824-1826.

Nisipeanu, P., & Korczyn, A. D. (1993). Psychological stress as risk factor for exacerbations in multiple sclerosis. Neurology, 43(7), 1311-1312.

Poser, C. M. (1980). [Physical trauma and psychological stress in multiple sclerosis (author's transl)]. Rev Neurol (Paris), 136(12), 807-814.

van Noort, J. M. (1996). Multiple sclerosis: an altered immune response or an altered stress response? J Mol Med, 74(6), 285-296.

Warren, S., Greenhill, S., & Warren, K. G. (1982). Emotional stress and the development of multiple sclerosis: case- control evidence of a relationship. J Chronic Dis, 35(11), 821-831.

Wolfson, C., & Wolfson, D. B. (1995). Studies of the latency period in multiple sclerosis. Acta Neurol Scand Suppl, 161, 89-92.

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