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Why People Get Sick: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection
A groundbreaking study on the relationship between mental and physical health.
A stomach ache before a job interview is common enough--but how else can the mind affect the body? Can conditions like heart disease, cancer, asthma or arthritis be exacerbated, or relieved, by our own thoughts and feelings? Have you ever wondered why people get sick when they do? Does the mind ...more
A stomach ache before a job interview is common enough--but how else can the mind affect the body? Can conditions like heart disease, cancer, asthma or arthritis be exacerbated, or relieved, by our own thoughts and feelings? Have you ever wondered why people get sick when they do? Does the mind ...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
May 26th 2008
by Pegasus Books
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Several interesting health items have been made public recently by the BBC:
Stressed out parents make both themselves and their kids sick.
Caring for children with developmental illnesses, like Down’s or autism, weakens parents’ immune systems.
People who own cats have a forty percent lower risk of fatal heart attack.
What do these points have in common? According to authors Leader and Corfield, the former a psychoanalyst and the latter a philosopher, ...more
Stressed out parents make both themselves and their kids sick.
Caring for children with developmental illnesses, like Down’s or autism, weakens parents’ immune systems.
People who own cats have a forty percent lower risk of fatal heart attack.
What do these points have in common? According to authors Leader and Corfield, the former a psychoanalyst and the latter a philosopher, ...more
To ask more questions! The mind-body association theory is of great interest to me. This book gives lots of case study examples on its workings. The authors, I felt, didn't push any of their opinions. They posed lots of great questions - some great food for thought.
So far I am astounded by this book. It is amazing how much it seems that the medical industry has forgotten the mental element of why people get sick and even the subsconcious element. I am really enjoying reading this book, and expect to finish it.
Reads a little like a middle school attempt at a litcrit essay, with coaching from an elder brother who's a premed. But, wow, I haven't read anyone taking Freud so seriously in a while, which lends the book some nostalgic charm.
Fantastic. It is great to hear from the sience professionals that stress is the main reason of many illnesses.
Shannon
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Jacky
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Jason
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