When the Body Says No

NON-FICTION Self Help and Health WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO THE COST OF HIDDEN STRESS In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness. Western medicine achieves spectacular triumphs when dealing with acute conditions such as fractured bones or life-threatening infections. Trained to consider mind and body separately, physicians are often helpless in arresting the advance of most of the chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and even Alzheimer’s disease. Gabor Maté has found that in all of these chronic conditions, there is a common thread: people afflicted by these diseases have led lives of excessive stress, often invisible to the individuals themselves. From an early age, many of us develop a psychological coping style that keeps us out of touch with the signs of stress. So-called negative emotions, particularly anger, are suppressed. Dr. Maté writes with great Read by Daniel Maté conviction that knowledge of how stress and disease are connected is Category: Health and Self Help essential to prevent illness in the first place, or to facilitate healing. Running Time: 15 hrs 45 min When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to current Territory: US / CAN research on the physiological connection between life’s stresses and On Sale Date: Available Now emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus Audio CD: 978-1-926910-94-9 and hormones. MP3 CD: 978-1-926910-96-3 KEY SELLING POINTS / MARKETING Born in Budapest, Hungary in - Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and stories, including those of 1944, Gabor Maté is a survivor of people such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Rea- the Nazi genocide. He emigrated gan (Alzheimer’s), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer), and Lance Armstrong to Canada in 1957. (testicular cancer) - National Media Attention including several reviews and interviews He has written four books, all - International Best Seller translated into 15 languages Canadian bestsellers, published - Includes The Seven A’s of Healing: principles of healing and the preven- altogether in nearly twenty tion of illness from hidden stress languages on five continents. Dr. Maté ran a popular family practice in East PRAISE FOR WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO Vancouver for two decades. He also served as Medical Co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver “This is a most important book, both for patient and physician. It Hospital, caring for the terminally ill. could save your life.” PETER LEVINE, AUTHOR, WAKING THE TIGER He holds an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University, and is Adjunct Professor in SFU’s “There is something about Maté, perhaps his ability to listen School of Criminology. respectfully and react compassionately, that makes his patients open up their souls to him. What he hears is a cri du coeur, a lifetime of unexpressed psychic pain erupting through the body in fatal Contact Us: disease…Full of complex and powerful truths, When the Body Says No has the potential to change medical thinking – and perhaps even [email protected] save lives.” 112 Royal Avenue EDMONTON JOURNAL New Westminster, BC “When The Body Says No is full of startling insights and hard won V3L 1H3 poetry.” TORONTO STAR.

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