Co-or dinatin g Editor Neil Coulson Deput y Editor Diana Harcourt Co-Editors Mark Cropley Pauline Fox Marcus Munafò Daryl O’Connor Rory O’Connor Sarah Christie Contents Editorial 1 Neil Coulson & Diana Harcourt Themed Articles: Complementary and Alternative Medicine The psychology of complementary and 2 alternative medicine Adrian Furnham Associations and explanations: Who uses 12 complementary medicine and why? Felicity Bishop, Lucy Yardley & George Lewith Complementary and Alternative Medicine 20 (CAM) research is relevant to all health psychology Michael E. Hyland, Man Cheung Chung & Pam Jacobs Developing complementary therapy 23 services: A systematic approach Janet Richardson continued on back cover Health Psychology Update Publication of the Division of Health Psychology Volume 13 Issue 3 – July 2004 ISSN 0954-2027