ABSTRACT
As noted in Chapter 4, the physiological model of stress is primarily concerned with the effects of stress. As also noted in Chapter 4, Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) provides an influential account of how stress affects us bodily. This, in turn, reflects the biomedical model (see Chapter 3). However, the GAS fails to take into account how the (autonomic) nervous and endocrine (hormonal) systems interact with the immune system, that is, it fails to recognise the immunosuppressive effects of stress, which are the focus of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) (see Chapter 3).
