Table of Contents

1. Attention to Action: Willed and Automatic Control of Behavior.- 2. The Motor Theory of Voluntary Thinking.- 3. Cardiac Afferent Influences on Consciousness.- 4. Intrinsic Control Mechanisms of Pain Perception.- 5. Inhibition and Cognition: Toward an Understanding of Trauma and Disease.- 6. Mechanisms of Biofeedback Control: On the Importance of Verbal (Conscious) Processing.- 7. Learning and Long-term Physiological Regulation.- 8. Progressive Relaxation Then and Now: Does Change Always Mean Progress?.- Author Index.