When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection Contributor(s): Maté, Gabor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470923350 ISBN-13: 9780470923351 Publisher: Trade Paper Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2011 |
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BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Alternative Therapies - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Immune & Autoimmune |
Dewey: 616.08 |
LCCN: 2011290789 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (0.65 lbs) 320 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER This is a most important book, both for patient and physician. It could save your life. Now in paperback, the bestselling exploration of the effects of the mind-body connection on stress and disease. Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there such a thing as a cancer personality? Drawing on scientific research and the author's decades of experience as a practicing physician, this book provides answers to these and other important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that stress and one's individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.
Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and stories, including those of people such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Reagan (Alzheimer's), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer), and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer) An international bestseller translated into fifteen languages, When the Body Says No promotes learning and healing, providing transformative insights into how disease can be the body's way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. |
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