MIND, STRESS, CANCER THE SUMMARY OF THE BOOK Carcinogenic Mind The Psychosomatic Mechanisms of Cancer Dear reader, I have written this short version (with a different title) because the original is long (430 pages) and requires serious, thoughtful reading. It is not always easy, especially for a sick person. When you have a general idea of the book from this summary, you will be more ready to read the original. The short version consists of the full preface and table of contents of the original, a summary of the main part and information about the author and his practice. From the table of contents you will understand the differences of this adapted essay from the original. Each paragraph of summary corresponds to a chapter or at least several pages of the book. It is clear that many interesting topics and facts could not be included here for the sake of brevity. If any ideas you find here seem to be disputable, incomprehensible, or even shocking, remember that in the original book they are all explained in detail and justified by research and clinical examples. I invite you to an engrossing journey into the mysteries of cancer and the human psyche! Dr. Vladislav Matrenitsky * * * Share this text with your friends! The summary can be freely distributed for non- commercial purposes, provided that the form and content remain unchanged. Partial or complete copying and publication, with the exception of brief quotations indicating the source, is not permitted. Full version of the book Carcinogenic Mind (printed or electronic version) can be purchased on the website: www.carcinogenic-mind.com. Copyright © 2019 Vladislav Matrenitsky Praise for the full book version Read this book and learn how to induce a life and body you can love and which will do its best to keep you alive and healthy. Bernie Siegel, MD, surgeon-oncologist, psycho-oncologist, Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles; Peace, Love & Healing; The Art of Healing. * * * This book should be read by every physician-oncologist and every cancer patient. It sheds light on those aspects of cancer that are virtually unknown in this country, and convincingly proves the importance of the use of psychotherapy in oncology. Moreover, the book helps patients understand what can be done to improve health after completing the course of traditional special treatment. Viktor V. Priymak, M.D., Ph.D., surgeon-oncologist, Head of the Department of Abdominal and Retroperitoneal Tumors of the National Cancer Institute, Kiev, Ukraine * * * This monograph presents a deep analysis of the influence of psychological problems on the development of cancer. The author has thoroughly reviewed modern scientific data on one of the most problematic areas of medicine. He has reasonably showed that in the treatment of oncological diseases, in addition to the surgical-pharmacological approach prevailing in this country, the participation of psychotherapists and psychologists is mandatory. “The carcinogenic mind” is the way of being of which cancer becomes the natural result. Therefore, adequate and timely psycho-correction can be an effective aid for patients confronting a life-threatening illness. Galina Y. Pilyagina, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Med. Sci., psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Professor, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology of the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education after P.L. Shupik, Kiev, Ukraine * * * The book has a clear logic, contains a huge array of information from different areas of modern psychology and biomedicine. At the same time, it is written in quite accessible language and is not overloaded with specific terminology. When the author has to discuss the mechanisms that determine the complex processes in the body, he explains it simply and intelligibly. Therefore, the book can be recommended not only for a narrow circle of specialists, but also for people who do not have special education but are interested in the theoretical and practical issues of cancer set forth in it. Alexander M. Vaiserman, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Med. Sci., molecular biologist, Head of the Laboratory of Epigenetics of the Institute of Gerontology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev __________________________________________________________ Foreword of the full book version It is a pleasure to read the work that Dr. Matrenitsky has put together. It is sad that the medical profession still has not included what his book reveals as a part of medical education. Over fifty years ago when I wrote my book Love, Medicine & Miracles, I was called a controversial person who was blaming his patients for getting cancer. What I was doing was teaching them how to heal and cure their disease, but I was a surgeon, and so made other doctors who were not aware of mind-body unity confused and unable to understand that I was empowering my patients and not making them feel guilty. You don't have to fight a war and empower your enemy, the cancer. You have to work on healing and curing your life and body. Jungian therapist Elida Evans, in the 1920s wrote in her book, A Psychological Study of Cancer, “cancer is growth gone wrong, a message to take a new road in your life.” The poet W. H. Auden in his poem “Miss Gee,” wrote about cancer, “Childless women get it. And men when they retire; It's as if there had to be an outlet For their foiled creative fire.” Doctors years ago yelled at me, “Just because it rhymes doesn't make it true.” Today we can see it is true. I started an organization called ECaP; Exceptional Cancer Patients. These people outlived expectations, participated in their experience of cancer, and were not victims. When I wrote articles for medical journals they were returned with the comment, “interesting but inappropriate for our journal.” When I sent it to psychiatry journals they sent it back too with this comment: “appropriate but not interesting. We know all this.” My articles were about mind-body interaction and how dreams and drawings revealed what was happening in the body. Centuries ago Jung diagnosed a brain tumor from a dream and many Jungian therapists have helped me to see what information lies within a patient's dream or drawing. My book The Art of Healing contains many examples, as do many other books written by Jungians; but because they didn't know anatomy, as doctors do, they did not see what I was able to see. I used this knowledge to diagnose and help me decide whether to operate or not. Dr. Matrenitsky uses a term that I do not accept; “spontaneous healing.” Why do I not? Because this healing isn't spontaneous. That is what his book is telling us. Solzhenitsyn's book The Cancer Ward has a beautiful explanation—and I must say here, fiction writers write the truth because they observe life and turn it into fiction through the characters they create. Solzhenitsyn has one of the men on the cancer ward say, “I found this book in the hospital library. It says here there are cases of "self-induced healing", not recovery through treatment, but actual healing, see.” It was as though self- induced healing fluttered out of the great open book like a RAINBOW- COLORED BUTTERFLY and they all held up their foreheads and cheeks for its healing touch as it flew past. The rainbow coloring is your life in order and harmony. How does that happen? You burst out of your cocoon and become your beautiful authentic self. I learned to ask patients why they didn't die when they were expected to and they all had a story to tell me. They did not deny their mortality but started living their authentic lives. New jobs, new locations, adopting pets, finding a home on the ocean, leaving their troubles to God, or telling God what they needed—and He better respond. I'll conclude with one example. A patient was expected to die within two months. He moved to Colorado to die in the beautiful mountains. I told the family to call me for the funeral. A year later, no call, so I called the family to criticize them for ignoring me. That patient answered the phone and said “It was so beautiful here I forgot to die.” A letter I received said, “I bought a dog, put in a backyard wildlife site,” and much more; and then ended, “I didn't die and now I am so busy I'm killing myself. Help, where do I go from here?” I told her to take a nap. Physical fatigue is not a threat, as emotional fatigue is. Monday morning we have more heart attacks, strokes, and illnesses of all sorts. The problem is people, not Monday. So read this book and learn how to induce a life and body you can love and which will do its best to keep you alive and healthy. Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles, Peace, Love & Healing, and The Art of Healing ____________________________________________________________ Contents Contents ......................................................................................................... 5 Introduction.............................................. Ошибка! Закладка не определена. Part I. Stress, Psychosomatics, and Psycho-Oncology ............................. 25 Chapter 1. The History of Psycho-Oncology ................... Ошибка! Закладка не определена. 1.1. Domestic Observations .................. Ошибка! Закладка не определена. 1.2. Observations Made in Other CountriesОшибка! Закладка не определена. 1.3. The Paradox of Oncology ............. Ошибка! Закладка не определена. 1.4. Clinical Development of Psycho-OncologyОшибка! Закладка не определена. 1.5. The Spiritual Dimension of Integrative Medicine and Oncology ............................................ Ошибка! Закладка не определена. Chapter 2. Is Cancer a Psychosomatic Disease? .............. Ошибка! Закладка не определена. 2.1. The General Psychological Mechanisms of Somatic Diseases ... Ошибка! Закладка не определена. 2.2. Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Characteristics of Psychosomatic Patients .....................................................