When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there such a thing as a cancer personality? This book provides answers to these and other important questions about the mind-body link in illness and health. It offers insights into emotions and disease.

(Ingram)

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Gabor Mate, M.D., has been a family practitioner for twenty years. He was a longstanding medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail in Canada. Mate's first book, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, was a national bestseller in Canada.

(Whitaker)

A Note to the Reader. The Bermuda Triangle. The Little Girl Too Good to Be True. Stress and Emotional Competence. Buried Alive. Never Good Enough. You Are Part of This Too, Mom. Stress, Hormones, Repression and Cancer. Something Good Comes Out of This. Is There a Cancer Personality? The 55 Per Cent Solution. It's All in Her Head. I Shall Die First from the Top. Self or Non--Self: The Immune System Confused. A Fine Balance: The Biology of Relationships. The Biology of Loss. The Dance of Generations. The Biology of Belief. The Power of Negative Thinking. The Seven A's of Healing. Notes. Resources. Acknowledgments. Index.

(Whitaker)