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International Bestseller Translated into 15 Languages

This is a most important book, both for patient and physician. It could save your life.
Peter Levine, PhD, best selling author of In an Unspoken Voice

Gabor Maté, M.D., skillfully blends recent advances in biomedicine with the personal stories of his patients to provide empowering insights into how deeply developmental experiences shape our health, behavior, attitudes, and relationships. A must read.
Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., author of The Biology of Belief

The international bestseller is a groundbreaking exploration of the effects of the mind-body connection on stress and disease and how we can heal.

Through the lens of moving personal stories, medical doctor and best-selling author Dr. Gabor Maté shows how emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, cancer, and many other serious illnesses.

Drawing on scientific research and the authors decades of experience as a practicing physician, this book provides answers to important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that chronic stress and ones individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

Explore the role of the mind-body link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, IBS, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune conditions, and more

The book draws on years of medical research and the authors own clinical experience as a family physician

Complete with The Seven As of Healing Once youre ready to acknowledge underlying stress, Dr. Mate guides you forward with principles of healing, management, and the prevention of illness from hidden stress

Discover dozens of enlightening case studies and personal stories, including familiar names such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Reagan (Alzheimers), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer), and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)

An impressive contribution to research on the physiological connection between lifes chronic stress cycles, anxiety, and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus, and hormones

Author: Gabor Maté
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Published: 01/01/2011
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.51w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781630262563
Language: English