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Abrahamsson, K.H, Berggren, U, Hallberg, L, and Carlsson, S.G (2002). ‘Dental phobic patient’s view of dental anxiety and experiences in dental care: a qualitative study.’ Scandinavian Journal of Caring Science, 16 188-196

Adolfsson, B, Andersson, I, Elofsson, S, Rössner, S, and Undénc, A.L (2005). ‘Locus of control and weight reduction.’ Patient Education and Counseling, 56 55-61

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Baum, A, Fleming, R, and Reddy, D.M (1986). ‘Unemployment Stress: Loss of Control and Learned Helplessness.’ Social Science and Medicine,22 (5) 509-516

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Carver, C.S and Antoni, M.H (2004). ‘Finding Benefit in Breast Cancer During the Year After Diagnosis Predicts Better Adjustment 5 to 8 Years After Diagnosis.’ Health Psychology, 23 (6) 595-598

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Crisson, J.E and Keefe, F.J (1988). ‘The relationship of locus of control to pain coping strategies and psychological distress in chronic pain patients.’ Pain, 35 147-154

Crombez, G, Van Damme, S, and Eccleston, C (2005). ‘Hypervigilance to pain: An experimental and clinical analysis.’ Pain, 116 4-7 

Danner, D.D, Snowdon, D.A, and Friesen, W.V (2001). ‘Positive Emotions in Early Life and Longevity: Findings from the Nun Study.’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80 (5) 804-813

Davidson, R.J, Kabat-Zinn, J, Schumacher, J, Rosenkranz, M, Muller, D, Santorelli, S.F, Urbanowski, F, Harrington, A, Bonus, K, and Sheridan, J.F (2003). ‘Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation.’ Psychosomatic Medicine, 65 564-570

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Edwards, C.R, Thompson, A.R, and Blair, A (2007). ‘An ‘overwhelming Illness’: Women’s experiences of learning to live with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis.’ Journal of Health Psychology, 12 203-214

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Fenigstein, A and Vanable, P.A (1992). ‘Paranoia and self-consciousness.’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62 (1) 129-138

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Fredrickson, B.L, Mancuso, R.A, Branigan, C, and Tugade, M.M (2000). ‘The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions.’ Motivation and Emotion,24 (4) 23-258

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Freeman, D, Garety, P.A, Bebbington, P.E, Smith, B, Rollinson, R, Fowler, D, Kuipers, E, Ray, K, and Dunn, G (2005) ‘Psychological investigation of the structure of paranoia in a non-clinical population.’ British Journal of Psychiatry, 186, 427-435

Gale, C.R, Batty, G.D, and Deary, I.J (2008). ‘Locus of Control at Age 10 Years and Health Outcomes and Behaviors at Age 30 Years: The 1970 British Cohort Study.’ Psychosomatic Medicine, 70 397-403

Gebhardt, W.A and Brosschot, J.F (2002). ‘Desirability of Control: Psychometric Properties and Relationships with Locus of Control, Personality, Coping, and Mental and Somatic Complaints in Three Dutch Samples.’ European Journal of Personality, 16 423-438

Gil, K.M, Abrams, M.R, Phillips, G, and Keefe, F.J (1989). ‘Sickle cell disease pain: Relation of coping strategies to adjustment.’ Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 57 (6) 725-731

Gilbert, P (2000). ‘The Relationship of Shame, Social anxiety and Depression: The Role and Evaluation of Social Rank.’ Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 7 174-189

Gill, A.J, and Oberlander, J (2002). Taking care of the linguistic features of Extraversion. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax 363-368

Goodhart, D.E (1985). ‘Some psychological effects associated with positive and negative thinking about stressful event outcomes: Was Pollyanna right?’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48 (1) 216-232

Hagley and Kelly (2009). ‘A survey of client responses following completion of a course of ‘Pure Hynoanalysis’, (PHA).’ Downloadable from www.iaph.org

Haynes, R.B, Sackett, D.L, Taylor, D.W, Gibson, E.S, and Johnson, A.L (1978). ‘Increased absenteeism from work after detection and labeling of hypertensive patients’ The New England Journal of Medicine 299 741-744

Hebert, T.P (1996). ‘Portraits of resilience: the urban life experience of gifted Latino young men.’ Roeper Review, 19 (2) 82-90

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Lee, D.A, Scragg, P, and Turner, S (2001). ‘The role of shame and guilt in traumatic events: A clinical model of shame-based and guilt-based PTSD.’ British Journal of Medical Psychology, 74 451-466

Lengacher, C.A, Bennett, M.P, Gonzalez, L, Gilvary, D, Cox, C.E, Cantor, A, Jacobse, P.B, Yang, C, and Djeu, J (2008). ‘Immune responses to guided imagery during breast cancer treatment.’ Biological Research Nursing, 9 (3) 205-214

Leserman, J, Jackson, E.D, Petitto, J.M, Golden, R.N, Silva, S.G, Perkins, D.O, Cai, J, Folds, J.D, and Evans, D.L (1999). ‘Progression to AIDS: The effects of stress, depressive symptoms, and social support.’ Psychosomatic Medicine, 61 397-406

Lever, J.P, Pinol, N.L, and Uralde, J.H (2005). ‘Poverty, psychological resources and subjective well-being.’ Social Indicators Research, 73 375-408

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