Dr Kate Hamilton-West is a Chartered Psychologist, Doctor of Health Psychology (PhD) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological. Kate combines academic research and teaching (at the University of Kent) with health psychology practice. She is the author of Psychobiological Processes in Health and Illness (2011), a guide to relationships between the mind and body across a wide range of topics including infectious illness, autoimmunity, cancer and pain. This textbook brings together research from a number of disciplines including health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral genetics Psychobiological Processes in Health and Illness. London: Sage Publications Ltd. www.katehamiltonwest.com.