Opening up
About this book
Psychologist James W. Pennebaker has conducted controlled clinical research that sheds new light on the powerful mind-body connection. This book interweaves his findings with insightful case studies on secret-keeping, confession, and the hidden price of silence. Filled with encouragement, Opening Up explains : how writing about your problems can improve your health, how long-buried trauma affects the immune system, why it's never too late to heal old emotional wounds, when self-disclosure may be risky-and how to know whom to trust.
Subjects
- healing
- health aspects
- health aspects of inhibition
- health aspects of self-disclosure
- inhibition
- inhibition (psychology)
- interpersonal communication
- mental healing
- mind and body
- mind-body relations, metaphysical
- popular works
- prevention
- prevention & control
- psychological inhibition
- psychological stress
- self disclosure
- self-disclosure
- self-help techniques
- stress (psychology)
- therapeutic use
- writing
- written communication