When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection - Hardcover

Maté M D, Gabor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630262560 ISBN 13: 9781630262563

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2011

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Title: When the Body Says No( Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: GaborMate <>Publisher: JohnWiley&Sons

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The potential for wholeness and health resides in all of us, affirms Dr Gabor Maté in When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress. But disease is often the body's way of saying "no" to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge, warns the author, who quotes the latest scientific findings about the roles stress and individual emotional makeup play in causing cancer and other chronic illnesses. Maté is a medical doctor and the bestselling author of Scattered. This work offers stories from his own patients in the belief that insight is more helpful to people than advice. Natalie, for example, develops multiple sclerosis after years of marriage to a drunken and emotionally abusive husband. In another case, a 74-year-old man diagnosed with cancer experiences spontaneous remission. His own body mobilised formidable immune responses to defeat the disease. "If we gain the ability to look into ourselves with honesty, compassion and with unclouded vision, we can identify the ways we need to take care of ourselves," says Maté, who invites us all to be our own health advocates by pursuing emotional competence in seven areas: acceptance, awareness, anger, autonomy, attachment, assertion and affirmation. If a link exists between emotions and psychology, he says, not to inform people of it will deprive them of a powerful tool. --Carolyn Leitch, Amazon.ca

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"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 interviewees′ stories are often touching and haunting. . . . Maté carefully explains the biological mechanisms that are activated when stress and trauma exert a powerful influence on the body. . . . Readers will be grateful for the final chapter . . . in which Maté presents an open formula for healing and the prevention of illness from hidden stress." — Quill & Quire "In this important book, Dr. Gabor Maté combines a passionate examination of his patients′ life histories with lucid explanations of the science behind mind–body unity." — Richard Earle, Ph.D. Modern research is confirming the age–old wisdom that emotions are inseparable from our health and physiology. Repressed emotions bring on stress that can lead to disease. In this internationally bestselling book, Gabor Maté draws on cutting–edge science, his decades of experience as a physician, and the stories of famous people including those of Lou Gehrig, Lance Armstrong, Gilda Radner, and Ronald Reagan to examine the role hidden stress plays in an array of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, and cancer. When the Body Says No provides transformative insights into how disease can be the body′s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge—and how we can heal.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1630262560
• ISBN 13: 9781630262563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320