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Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage

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Holistic Healing

Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage

Walter B. Cannon

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Cut off from food, cornered by fear, roused to rage: Walter Cannon showed how emotion rewires the stomach, the heart and the blood. His landmark research traced the bodily storms behind feeling and coined the fight-or-flight idea that endures today. A foundational work of modern physiology, still bracingly readable. Discover the science of what the body does when we feel.

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  1. 1BODILY CHANGES IN PAIN, HUNGER, FEAR AND RAGE
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5CHAPTER I
  6. 6Emotions Favorable to Normal Secretion of the Digestive Juices
  7. 7Emotions Unfavorable to the Normal Secretion of the Digestive Juices
  8. 8Emotions Favorable and Unfavorable to the Contractions of the Stomach and Intestines
  9. 9The Disturbing Effect of Pain on Digestion
  10. 10REFERENCES
  11. 11CHAPTER II
  12. 12The Outlying Neurones
  13. 13The Three Divisions of the Outlying Neurones
  14. 14The Extensive Distribution of Neurones of the “Sympathetic” Division and Their Arrangement for Diffuse Action
  15. 15The Arrangement of Neurones of the Cranial and Sacral Divisions for Specific Action
  16. 16The Cranial Division a Conserver of Bodily Resources
  17. 17The Sacral Division a Group of Mechanisms for Emptying
  18. 18The Sympathetic Division Antagonistic To Both The Cranial and the Sacral

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