Physiology, Emotion & Psychosomatic Illness -- Contents -- Introduction -- Concepts of emotion -- Emotions and physiology: an introduction -- Discussion -- The role of affects in psychoanalytic theory -- Discussion -- Conservation-withdrawal: a primary regulatory process for organismic homeostasis -- Discussion -- The structure of the emotions and the limbic system -- Discussion -- Control of emotional behaviour through the hypothalamus and amygdaloid complex -- Discussion -- Anxiety: a behavioural legacy -- Discussion -- Physiological and behavioural processes in early maternal deprivation -- Discussion -- Emotion and the cardiovascular system in the cat -- Discussion -- Changes in catecholamine-controlling enzymes in response to psychosocial activation of the defence and alarm reactions -- Discussion -- Influence of psychological variables on stress-induced pathology -- Discussion -- Expectancy and the pituitary-adrenal system -- Discussion -- Psychophysiological research and psychosomatic medicine -- Discussion -- Emotions and heart diseases -- Discussion -- Emotional disturbances before and after subarachnoid haemorrhage -- Discussion -- Metabolic and behavioural correlates of obesity -- Discussion -- The treatment of psychopathology in bronchial asthmatics -- Discussion -- General Discussion -- Summing-up -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.