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Environmental Illness: Myth & Reality
Contributor(s): Staudenmayer, Herman (Author)
ISBN: 1566703050     ISBN-13: 9781566703055
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE:   $209.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 1998
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Annotation: Environmental illness, traditionally thought of as originating in one's surroundings, may actually be physiological in origin. This theory inspired "Environmental Illness" based on the author's 17 years of research and clinical work with several hundred patients. Staudenmayer describes alternatives to toxicogenic explanations for symptoms attributed to low-level chemical sensitivities and addresses the problem of multiple chemical sensitivities from a physiological viewpoint.
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Toxicology
- Medical | Mental Health
- Medical | Psychiatry - General
Dewey: 615.902
LCCN: 98008694
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 7.34" W x 10.28" (2.06 lbs) 400 pages
 
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Environmental illness: certain health professionals and clinical ecologists claim it impacts and inhibits 15 percent of the population. Its afflicted are led to believe environmental illness (EI) originates with food, chemicals, and other stimuli in their surroundings -as advocates call for drastic measures to remedy the situation.
What if relief proves elusive-and the patient is sent on a course of ongoing, costly and ineffective treatment?
Several hundred individuals who believed they were suffering from EI have been evaluated or treated by Herman Staudenmayer since the 1970s. Staudenmayer believed the symptoms harming his patients actually had psychophysiological origins-based more in fear of a hostile world than any suspected toxins contained in the environment.
Staudenmayer's years of research, clinical work-and successful care-are now summarized in Environmental Illness: Myth & Reality. Dismissing much of the information that has attempted to defend EI and its culture of victimization, Staudenmayer details the alternative diagnoses and treatments that have helped patients recognize their true conditions-and finally overcome them, often after years of prolonged suffering.