Cancer as a Turning Point: 2 Hardcover – March 27, 1989
Author: Lawrence LeShan ID: 0525247432
From Publishers Weekly
Le Shan rightly describes his ninth health guide as a “state-of-the-art handbook,” counseling readers on how to realize their self-healing abilities by employing methods dramatized here in case histories. The book details strategies to promote psychological change and teaches techniques (active visualization, classical meditation) that encourage cancer victims to fight the disease. Critical of doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel who regard the afflicted primarily as machines to repair, Le Shan urges patients to insist on their rights to humane and conscientious care: “Many doctors are so completely oriented to fighting disease and ignoring the sick person that, in catastrophic illness, they often seem to be asking themselves: ‘How many heroic measures and mutilating operations can be charged to the patient (orto the insurance company) before death–the final method of consumer resistance–is allowed to intervene?’ ” His advice on overcoming the often debilitating lay and professional attitudes surrounding the cancer sufferer is eminently sound. Author tour.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
LeShan, noted therapist and popular author of books on the mind/body connection, including You Can Fight For Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer ( LJ 4/15/77), offers further advice for people dealing with cancer. Writing from an inspiring, holistic-oriented perspective, LeShan says that the crisis of cancer offers many positive possibilities for the sufferer–healing, a new life, a peaceful death, the unlocking of inner resources, and the uncovering of hidden self-knowledge. He also gives practical counsel on dealing with hospital stays and practicing meditation, and discusses the human need for a meaningful death. Recommended for public libraries with holistic health or New Age interest.
– Judith Eannarino, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Hardcover: 207 pagesPublisher: Dutton Adult; 1st edition (March 27, 1989)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0525247432ISBN-13: 978-0525247432 Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #329,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #287 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Oncology #1647 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Diseases #41600 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting
Cancer belongs to the category of clubs you’d never want to be a member of, and when you’re forced to join against your will, it’s hard to be there. I should know because I’m a member.
Having cancer involves a whole lot more than the terror of a life-threatening illness and the often torturous treatment that makes you sicker than the disease. It damages your self-worth and self-esteem, can cause extreme depression and PTSD, ends jobs and relationships; in short, it effects your life in a catastrophic way.
Larry LeShan treated terminally ill cancer patients for 40 years and determined almost immediately that the standard therapeutic model–what’s wrong with this patient and how can we fix it–was not working. He developed a new approach by saying, what’s right with this person and how can we bring more of that into her life? Not surprisingly, many of these patients improved and some became miracles by recovering completely.
He noticed that there was a common denominator among these people: that each of them had a passion that had gone unexpressed. By guiding them to express their passion, for example, to learn, finally, how to play piano, they often improved.
The mind-body connection is a well-accepted fact today. The state of one’s mental, emotional, and spiritual health influences how well or poorly the immune system functions. Depression leads to all kinds of physical illness, including cancer, because it severely depresses immune system functioning, just like the continual expression of rage elevates blood pressure and over time, damages the heart.
In no way does Larry LeShan believe that a person is responsible for creating his or her dis-ease; in fact, he chides those who would suggest that.
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