What are hormones, and what significance do they have for the psyche and our behavior? Do hormones influence our psyche and behavior? Can our behavior influence our hormones? Is there a connection between hormones and mental disorders? This book explores the interplay between the neurobiological foundations of psychological experiences and behavior, endocrine processes, and psychosocial environmental influences. It presents foundational research from both the scientific disciplines of endocrinology and psychoneuroendocrinology in a way that is accessible to readers without medical or neurobiological backgrounds.

The book also demonstrates for the first time how these interdisciplinary insights can be implemented into a biopsychosocial coaching approach that serves to both maintain and promote mental health. This coaching approach is suitable for both psychosocial counseling and psychotherapeutic practice. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

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Julia Wiederhofer lives in Southern Styria (Austria) and is currently devoted to her children (born in 2018 and 2022) as well as researching psychoneuroendocrinology and scientific writing.