INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER This is a most important book both for patient and physician. It could save your life. Peter Levine PhD bestselling author of In an Unspoken Voice Now in paperback the bestselling exploration of the effects of the mindbody connection on stress and disease. Can a person literally die of loneliness Is there such a thing as a cancer personality Drawing on scientific research and the authors decades of experience as a practicing physician this book provides answers to these and other important questions about the effect of the mindbody link on illness and health and the role that stress and ones individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.Explores the role of the mindbody link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis cancer diabetes heart disease IBS and multiple sclerosisDraws on medical research and the authors clinical experience as a family physicianIncludes The Seven As of Healingprinciples of healing and the prevention of illness from hidden stress Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and stories including those of people such as Lou Gehrig ALS Betty Ford breast cancer Ronald Reagan Alzheimers Gilda Radner ovarian cancer and Lance Armstrong testicular cancer An international bestseller translated into fifteen languages When the Body Says No promotes learning and healing providing transformative insights into how disease can be the bodys way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. show more