These are books we have found helpful to educate people about the psychological aspects contributing to heart disease:

Recovering From Heart Disease in Body & Mind: Medical and Psychological Strategies for Living with Coronary Artery Disease
by Brian Harvey Baker, et al

Stress and a Healthy Ticker: A Psychological Approach to Healing and Preventing Heart Disease
by Diana Wisdom

Women Are Not Small Men: Life-Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease in Women
by Nieca Goldberg, M.D

The Fitness Factor : Every Woman's Key to a Lifetime of Health and Well-Being
by Lisa Callahan, M.D

Fight Fat After Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You Healthy, Fit, and Trim for Life by Pamela Peeke

Other Helpful websites:

www.heartdisease.about.com
- Info on heart disease and cardiology for the lay person
www.heartcenteronline.com
- Info on heart disease for patients
www.nimh.nih/gov/publicat/heartbreak.cfm
- About heart disease and depression
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/nhaap/
- National Heart Attack Alert Program
www.cdc.gov/cvh
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.americanheart.org
- American Heart Association
www.whvc.com
- Wisconsin Heart and Vascular Clinics, a Milwaukee area cardiology practice