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Cancer As a Turning Point: A Handbook for People with Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals
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About Cancer As A Turning Point: A Handbook For People
Product Description Psychotherapist Lawrence LeShan has worked with cancer patients for more than thirty-five years and his research has led people with cancer to find new, effective ways to fight for their lives. He has put his findings--full of meaning and purpose--into this revised edition that shows how psychological change, along with medical treatment, mobilizes a compromised immune system for healing. Included is a life-transforming workbook of hands-on exercises designed to help readers evaluate their inner selves and teach them how to get the most out of their immune systems by leading fuller, richer lives. About the Author Lawrence LeShan is a psychotherapist whose work has aided cancer patients for more than 35 years. He is the author of Cancer as a Turning Point, The Dilemma of Psychology, The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist, and You Can Fight for Your Life. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. What kind of life would you be living if you adjusted the world to yourself instead of—as most patients generally have done—adjusting yourself to the world? What kind of life and lifestyle would make you glad to get up in the morning and glad to go to bed at night? These are questions Dr. LeShan asks his patients in order to open their eyes, to make a difference in their lives—and their cancer treatment. His methods get impressive results: over the past thirty years, approximately half of his patients with poor prognoses have experienced long-term remission and are still alive. Nearly all dramatically improved their emotional state and quality of life. This revised edition of Dr. LeShan’s groundbreaking book shows how you can start to change your life for the better—right now. LAWRENCE LESHAN, PH.D., has been a research and clinical psychologist for more than half a century. A graduate of William and Mary, he is the author of more than a dozen books, including You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer and The Mechanic and the Gardener: How to Use the Holistic Revolution in Medicine. ALSO BY LAWRENCE LESHAN The Psychosomatic Aspects of Neoplastic Disease(coedited with David Kissen) Counseling the Dying(with Jackson, Bowers, and Knight) You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factorsin the Treatment of Cancer The Mechanic and the Gardener: How to Usethe Holistic Revolution in Medicine How to Meditate The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist Alternate Realities The Science of the Paranormal:The Last Frontier Einstein’s Space and Van Gogh’s Sky(with Henry Margenau) The Dilemma of Psychology The Psychology of War LAWRENCE LESHAN, Ph.D. CANCER AS A TURNINGPOINT A Handbook for Peoplewith Cancer, Their Families,and Health Professionals REVISED EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my deep gratitude to Frederick Ayer II for his long support of this work. Without him this book would not have been possible. I owe a profound debt to the people with cancer who taught me all that I know over these last thirty-five years. My appreciation also to the increasing number of therapists all over the world who are using this approach. I’d also like to pay tribute to my wife, Eda LeShan, who shared the joys and pains of this adventure and whose contributions to this book are very great. PREFACE TO THEREVISED EDITION The second edition of Cancer as a Turning Point has been revised to include a special section of paper and pencil exercises. These are ways to evaluate where you are now in your life and to find new ways in which you might wish to change. I suggest you read the first three chapters of the book, then the workbook and, as you read the rest of the book, start doing the workbook exercises according to their instructions. This has been a helpful process for many people. However, if you feel that a different procedure would be better for you (such as reading the entire book first), by all means follow it. Little new material about research in the field has been added to
