Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

by Bernie S. Siegel, Siegel

Overview

Surgeon Bernie S. Siegel gives an inspirational, first-hand account of how patients can participate in their own recovery.

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060919832
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/22/1998
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	22,565
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Bernie Siegel, M.D. embraces a philosophy that is at the forefront of a society grappling with medical ethics and spiritual issues. His books, Love, Medicine and Miracles published in 1986, Peace, Love and Healing in 1989, and How to Live Between Office Visits in 1993, have broken new ground in the field of healing. Over the span of twenty years, physicians have become increasingly more receptive to his message. Bernie's efforts have now turned toward humanizing medical care and medical education, and he continues to travel extensively with his wife Bobbie, to speak and run workshops, sharing his techniques and experiences. Bernie and Bobbie have five children and six grandchildren (so far).

Table of Contents

Reflections and Thoughts on Love, Medicine & Miracles		vii
Introduction		1	(8)
I. MINDING THE BODY		9	(116)
1. The Privileged Listener		11	(22)
2. The Healing Partnership		33	(32)
3. Communicating with Your Body		65	(36)
4. The Will to Live		101	(24)
II. EMBODYING THE MIND		125	(102)
5. Beginning the Journey		127	(20)
6. Focusing the Mind for Healing		147	(10)
7. Images in Disease and Healing		157	(4)
8. Becoming Exceptional		161	(44)
9. Love and Death		205	(22)
Appendix		227
Illustrations follow page 116.