Living Beyond Limits: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-threatening IllnessOffers concrete guidelines that men and women with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses can use to live fuller -- and possibly even longer -- lives; discusses the current research as mind/body interaction and explains how to use the findings to enhance one's life; how to build sustaining support networks, detoxify fears of dying, reorganize priorities; bring their families closer together; control pain; and create and fulfill goals that speak to their innermost needs and desires. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Weathering the Diagnosis | 14 |
The Lull After the Storm | 31 |
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Living Beyond Limits: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness David Spiegel No preview available - 2005 |
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