You Can Fight For Your Life

Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer

Lawrence LeShan

The reason why clinical science has not solved the riddle of cancer may not lie totally within the realm of the laboratory. It may lie in part in the mind and emotions of the patient.

After two decades of research and psychotherapeutic work with cancer patients, Lawrence LeShan offers new evidence and startling insights into why some individuals get cancer while others do not--and why some are able to fight successfully for their lives while others rapidly succumb to the disease. Dr. LeShan has accumulated strong evidence that the mind can make the body receptive to cancer--and that the mind is also capable of fighting back.

This is a book of hope. For while cancer kills, it can also be killed. You Can Fight For Your Life is a major humanistic work by an author with a passionate commitment to life.

M. Evans & Company

Pages: 214 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-87131-494-9 • Paperback • February 1980 • $13.95 • (£10.99)

978-1-59077-331-4 • eBook • February 1980 • $9.99 • (£7.99)

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer, Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General

You Can Fight For Your Life

Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer

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Summary

The reason why clinical science has not solved the riddle of cancer may not lie totally within the realm of the laboratory. It may lie in part in the mind and emotions of the patient.

After two decades of research and psychotherapeutic work with cancer patients, Lawrence LeShan offers new evidence and startling insights into why some individuals get cancer while others do not--and why some are able to fight successfully for their lives while others rapidly succumb to the disease. Dr. LeShan has accumulated strong evidence that the mind can make the body receptive to cancer--and that the mind is also capable of fighting back.

This is a book of hope. For while cancer kills, it can also be killed. You Can Fight For Your Life is a major humanistic work by an author with a passionate commitment to life.

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M. Evans & Company

Pages: 214 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-87131-494-9 • Paperback • February 1980 • $13.95 • (£10.99)

978-1-59077-331-4 • eBook • February 1980 • $9.99 • (£7.99)

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer, Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General

Author

Lawrence LeShan is an experimental psychologist whose books include Alternate Realities: The Search for the Full Human Being and The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Appreciation
1. The First Clues
2. The Search for a Pattern
3. A Fuller Picture Emerges
4. The Emotional Life History of Cancer Patients
5. Stress and Susceptibility
6. Psychotherapy and the Cancer Patient
7. I Want to Live
8. The Third Road
9. The World of the Cancer Patient
10. What It Means to Fight for One's Life
Selected Bibliography

You Can Fight For Your Life

Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer

Lawrence LeShan

You Can Fight For Your Life

Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer

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