1st Edition
Understanding Health Psychology Through the Works of Stephen King Getting Under Your Skin
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Chapter 1: Getting Under Your Skin: A Shining Introduction
Chapter 2: Beginnings: The History of Health Psychology and Stephen King
Chapter 3: Measuring Your Fear: Research Methods in Health Psychology
Chapter 4: Believing the Unbelievable: Placebos and Voodoo Curses
Chapter 5: Character Development: The Health Psychology of Bill Hodges
Chapter 6: Plot Development: The Bigger Picture of Health Influence
Chapter 7: ACEs and The Body: Early Life Experiences and Health
Chapter 8: Take a Ride with Captain Trips: Psychoneuroimmunology
Chapter 9: The Nightmare of Insomnia: The Importance of Sleep
Chapter 10: The Horror of Behavior Change
Chapter 11: Done is Done: Where We Are and Where We Go
Biography
Crista Crittenden, PhD, MPH, LSW, is currently special faculty in psychology with a joint position at both Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. She teaches a wide range of courses, from introductory cognitive psychology lectures to upper‑level clinical and health psychology seminars. She is also a licensed social worker who provides supervised pro bono therapy, focusing on cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in brain and cognitive science from the University of Rochester, her master’s degrees in public health and social work from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and from the University of Pittsburgh, respectively, and her PhD in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
