Table of Contents

Contents
Pet-Facilitated Therapy: An Introduction

• The Human-Animal Bond
• Why We Love Our Pets: A Naturalistic/Psychoanalytical Approach
• Why We Love Our Pets: A Learning Theory Perspective
• Depression
• Stress and Anxiety
• Psychiatric Patients
• Pets and Children
• Pets and Adolescents
• Pets in the Family
• Pets and the Elderly
• Tiffany: Portrait of a Canine Cotherapist
• Prison Pets
• The Veterinarian as Human Psychologist
• The Death of a Pet
• Pet-Facilitated Therapy for the Physically Challenged
• Closing Thoughts
• Bibliography and Selected Readings
• Appendix: Organizations Involved in Pet Therapy and Research Into the Human-Animal Bond
• Index

About the Author

Odean Cusack