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Getting well again : [electronic resource] a step-by-step, self-help guide to overcoming cancer for patients and their families / O. Carl Simonton, Stephanie Matthews-Simonton, James L. Creighton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1980, c1978 (1984 printing)Description: x, 287 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0553231480 (pbk.) :
  • 9780553231489 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.994 20
LOC classification:
  • RC262 .S54 1984
Online resources:
Contents:
Mind-body connection: a psychological approach to cancer treatment -- Mysteries of healing: the individual and his beliefs -- Search for the causes of cancer -- Link between stress and illness -- Personality, stress, and cancer -- Expectations about cancer and their effects on recovery -- Whole-person model of cancer recovery -- Program: putting it to work -- Participating in your health -- "Benefits" of illness -- Learning to relax and visualize recovery -- Value of positive mental images -- Overcoming resentment -- Creating the future: setting goals -- Finding your inner guide to health -- Managing pain -- Exercise -- Coping with fears of recurrence and death -- Family support system.
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"Bantam edition."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-280) and index.

Mind-body connection: a psychological approach to cancer treatment -- Mysteries of healing: the individual and his beliefs -- Search for the causes of cancer -- Link between stress and illness -- Personality, stress, and cancer -- Expectations about cancer and their effects on recovery -- Whole-person model of cancer recovery -- Program: putting it to work -- Participating in your health -- "Benefits" of illness -- Learning to relax and visualize recovery -- Value of positive mental images -- Overcoming resentment -- Creating the future: setting goals -- Finding your inner guide to health -- Managing pain -- Exercise -- Coping with fears of recurrence and death -- Family support system.

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