Quando il corpo dice no. Il costo dello stress invisibile

My Most Honest Review Yet..... Between my junior and senior year of college, in the summer of 2005, my father kicked me out of the house after staying with him for approximately two weeks. The only job that I had ever had, the one where I spent the last two years working faithfully, somehow managed t Leggi tutto

Fine, call me a narrow-minded medic. What irked me particularly about this book is the fact that every chapter starts with a sad tale of loss, grief, abuse and emotional repression that simply 'happens' to happen in somebody suffering from ALS/MS/various cancers. And from this Mate draws the conclusi Leggi tutto

Și mi-am promis că nu voi mai citi cărți de self-help. Dar curiozitatea a învins, am vrut să văd ce-i cu tot zgomotul. Ei, era pentru mai nimic. Nu era nevoie de 350 de pagini ca să spună că reprimarea emoțiilor negative îți influențează negativ sănătatea (pe axa hormoni/sistem endocrin-sistem nervos Leggi tutto

Najlepsze, co przeczytałem w tym roku.

I don't usually rate books I disliked, but I think this one is actively harmful. The author doesn't appear to understand statistics, and his thesis is essentially that illnesses from ALS to cancer to inflammatory bowel disease are caused by some kind of semi-Freudian repression of the emotions, usua Leggi tutto

I recognise this book brings hope to people suffering with disease, but it is not reality based hope. 1. There is little evidence of personality types and disease, despite a lot of desperate believers in it. It's still possible such evidence will emerge (and I'd hope it does), but it has not appeare Leggi tutto