Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients
About This Book
A landmark work in the mind-body medicine movement by a Yale surgeon who began noticing that certain patients — whom he called "exceptional patients" — survived conditions that statistics predicted they would not, and that these patients shared specific psychological characteristics: they took an active role in their treatment, maintained hope, expressed their emotions freely, and had a positive relationship with life. This book documents what he learned from these patients and offers their lessons to everyone.
What You'll Learn
Exceptional patients survive life-threatening illness not because they are more compliant or more medically treated but because they take an active, hopeful, emotionally expressive role in their own healing — the will to live is a genuine biological force. Unconditional love — both given and received — is the most powerful medicine available to human beings; its physiological effects on the immune system and healing processes are measurable. Illness, however devastating, can become a doorway to a deeper and more authentic life — many of Siegel's most "exceptional" patients reported that their illness was the best thing that ever happened to them.
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