Introduction: chronic illness and the mind, the body, and the spirit.- Chronic illness, religious beliefs, and spiritual practices.- The pathways model.- Available therapeutic tools for treating patients with chronic illness.- Psychophysiological therapies.- Behavioral and life-style-based interventions.- Complementary/integrative medicine.- Chronic pain: the 65-year-old retired teacher.- Mood disorder: the 20-year-old Olympic hopeful with bipolar disorder.- Trauma-related illness: the 35-year-old National Guard soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder.- Anxiety and panic: the 70-year-old caregiver for a spouse with dementia.- Metabolic syndrome--obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus: the 40-year-old construction worker.- Cardiovascular disease: the 50-year-old physician with congestive heart failure and depression.- Cancer: the 55-year-old woman with breast cancer.- Neurologically based conditions--TBI, multiple sclerosis, and convulsive disorders: the 36-year-old mother with multiple sclerosis.- Substance use disorders: the 41-year-old lawyer with recurrent opiate abuse.
About the Author:

Angele McGrady Ph.D. received her B.S. from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, her Masters in Physiology from Michigan State University, and her Ph.D.. in Biology from the University of Toledo. Later she completed a Masters in Guidance and Counseling. She is a licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She is certified by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America and is also a certified sports counselor. Currently Dr. McGrady is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toledo. Dr. McGrady has extensive experience teaching medical, graduate medical, undergraduate students at the University of Toledo, and received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in the medical school. Dr. McGrady is a Past President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and is on the editorial board of the international journal Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. In March 2000, Dr. McGrady received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Dr. McGrady lectures locally and nationally on topics related to stress, Behavioral Medicine, biofeedback and conducts programs on wellness and building resiliency for health care professionals. Her curriculum vitae lists 83 publications and 22 book chapters. She has coedited one book, Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine for Primary Care with Dr. Donald Moss and others and coauthored a book with Dr. Donald Moss: Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health, published in 2013.

Donald Moss, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, at Saybrook University, Oakland, CA. There he has built training programs in biofeedback, clinical hypnosis, integrative mental health, wellness coaching, and integrative/functional nutrition. Dr. Moss is currently President-Elect of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and previously served as president of Division 30 (hypnosis) of the American Psychological Association and president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB). He is also the ethics chair for the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance.Moss is co-editor of Foundations of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback (AAPB, 2016), co-author of Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health (Springer, 2013), and chief editor of Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine for Primary Care (Sage, 2003) and Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology (Greenwood, 1998). He has a book in preparation for AAPB with co-editor Inna Khazan on Mindfulness, Compassion, and Biofeedback Practice. He has published over 60 articles and chapters on consciousness, psychophysiology, spirituality in health, and integrative medicine.