Since the late 1960s, Western psychotherapists working with people suffering from serious, even life-threatening, illnesses have acknowledged the power of emotions as a contribution to the disease process. Since the 1970s, research in the field of...
Sir Peter Medawar, the great British scientist and Nobel prizewinner in immunology, was once asked what the best prescription for success against cancer might be. 'A sanguine personality,' he replied. The relationship between cancer and personality...