Mă vindec: ghid in ajutorul bolnavilor de cancer

This book looks at support for the mind and feelings in cancer care. Anne Ancelin Schützenberger asks why the same cancer diagnosis can lead to different results. Her approach works alongside care from doctors. This health guide is for people with cancer who want to grasp their illness. It looks at help from doctors, therapists and family.

She looks at each person's life as a whole. She explores family ties, stress, grief and the will to live. Her methods include ways to relax and form mental images. She also explores patterns people do not know they have. She argues that these may play a part in illness. They may also make it harder to get well. She claims people can renew their bodies' power to heal.

She draws on work with people who got better than expected. In the excerpt, she says she worked only with terminal cases until 1983. These were people whose illness was expected to end their lives. Some lived well for five or ten years. Their forecasts had given them just days or weeks. She uses these accounts to argue for support for the mind.

Through talks, she explores their fears, hopes, goals and daily struggles. She aims to help them rethink their lives and find meaning in illness. These ideas add to medical care. They do not replace it.