Table of Contents

1: Peter W. Halligan & Mansel Aylward: Introduction - the relevance of belief for understanding and managing illness behaviour
Conceptual and psychological perspectives
Peter W. Halligan: Beliefs: explaining illness and shaping experience
2: Vaughan Bell, Peter W. Halligan & Hadyn D. Ellis: A cognitive neuroscience of belief
3: David F. Marks: Biased beliefs and the subjective validation effect
4: Quinton Deeley: The cognitive anthropology of belief
5: Irving Kirsch: Placebo: the role of expectancies in the generation and alleviation of illness
Clinical and occupational perspectives
Mansel Aylward: Beliefs: clinical and vocational interventions; tackling psychological and social determinants of illness and disability
6: Anthony F. Jorm & Kathleen M. Griffiths: Public and medical beliefs about mental disorders and their treatment
7: Robert Horne: Beliefs and adherence to treatment: the challenge for research and clinical practice
8: Peter Salmon: Explaining unexplained symptoms: the role of beliefs in clinical management
9: A. Kim Burton, Gordon Waddell & Chris J. Main: Beliefs and obstacles to recovery in low back pain
10: Derick T. Wade: Belief in rehabilitation, the hidden power for change
11: Rachelle Buchbinder: Managing disability in public policy initiatives
12: Duncan B. Double: Clinician bias in diagnosis and treatment
13: Robert Ferrari, Oliver Kwan & Jon Friel: Volition and psychosocial factors in illness behaviour