- Paperback: 441 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; New edition edition (14 Mar 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747248133
- ISBN-13: 978-0747248132
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 14.7 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Based on thousands of medical case reports from all over the world, this book aims to prove that spontaneous remission is more than just folklore. Caryle Hirshberg believes the answers to healing are found where the immune system has functioned beyond its usual capacities.
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I read this book back in 1998 for some studying I was doing about Psychoneuroimmunology (the way you feel influences the hormones and neurotransmitters you produce, and these have a direct effect on your immune system)
I was reading a lot of books about a similar territory at that time, but this one really stuck in the memory.
Biochemist Hirschberg was interested in the phenomenon sometimes called 'Spontaneous Remission' where a generally terminal or seriously progressive illness, for no understandable medical reason, vanishes, sometimes almost overnight.
Mainstream medicine has always been a little leery, and indeed sometimes dismissive of this - because it doesn't fit into currently understood paradigms. Hirshberg widened her research into 'spontaneous remission' to also include people diagnosed with serious progressive conditions who may not have completely had the condition vanish, but in whom progression of the illness was much much slower than might have been expected.
This book is an extremely welcoming and encouraging book, not least because it is a well researched book, written by a scientist (and also by a journalist) It contains not just inspirational stories of 'remarkable recoveries' but statistics - proving that such recoveries are far more common than is generally thought, and examining, in great detail, exactly who gets better, and possibly why.
Hirshberg interestingly discovered that the most statistically significant reason for remission/recovery was not the medication or method of treatment (mainstream or alternatives) not the diet, not the lifestyle, not the type of personality or outlook you have, not your faith or belief - but the quality of your interpersonal relationships. It is our connection to others, our community, which seemed to be the statistically most common thread that unites those experiencing recovery. And that rather than being a 'simple reproducable formula' the immune system seems to be more of a whole complexity of processes which can be perhaps be activated by a variety of factors - which absolutely includes the whole being of a person - a gestalt more than a reduceable
Its a great shame this book appears to be out of print. It holds gold within its pages. It continues to be surprising and disappointing that mainstream science doesn't devote more attention to what on earth might be going on when 'remarkable recoveries' occur. The great mysteriousness and wonderful ability of our bodies and minds to heal should be more widely studied and encouraged. We might all be able to benefit from what these remarkable recoveries have to teach us.
I was reading a lot of books about a similar territory at that time, but this one really stuck in the memory.
Biochemist Hirschberg was interested in the phenomenon sometimes called 'Spontaneous Remission' where a generally terminal or seriously progressive illness, for no understandable medical reason, vanishes, sometimes almost overnight.
Mainstream medicine has always been a little leery, and indeed sometimes dismissive of this - because it doesn't fit into currently understood paradigms. Hirshberg widened her research into 'spontaneous remission' to also include people diagnosed with serious progressive conditions who may not have completely had the condition vanish, but in whom progression of the illness was much much slower than might have been expected.
This book is an extremely welcoming and encouraging book, not least because it is a well researched book, written by a scientist (and also by a journalist) It contains not just inspirational stories of 'remarkable recoveries' but statistics - proving that such recoveries are far more common than is generally thought, and examining, in great detail, exactly who gets better, and possibly why.
Hirshberg interestingly discovered that the most statistically significant reason for remission/recovery was not the medication or method of treatment (mainstream or alternatives) not the diet, not the lifestyle, not the type of personality or outlook you have, not your faith or belief - but the quality of your interpersonal relationships. It is our connection to others, our community, which seemed to be the statistically most common thread that unites those experiencing recovery. And that rather than being a 'simple reproducable formula' the immune system seems to be more of a whole complexity of processes which can be perhaps be activated by a variety of factors - which absolutely includes the whole being of a person - a gestalt more than a reduceable
Its a great shame this book appears to be out of print. It holds gold within its pages. It continues to be surprising and disappointing that mainstream science doesn't devote more attention to what on earth might be going on when 'remarkable recoveries' occur. The great mysteriousness and wonderful ability of our bodies and minds to heal should be more widely studied and encouraged. We might all be able to benefit from what these remarkable recoveries have to teach us.
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