Book description
Have you ever wondered why we get ill?
Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like
heart disease, cancer or asthma?
And what if anything can we do about it?
Why Do People Get Ill? explores the relationship between what
s going on in our heads and what happens in our bodies, combining the
latest research with neglected findings from medical history. With
remarkable case studies and startling new insights into why we fall
ill, this intriguing book should be read by anyone who cares about
their own health and that of other people.
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member
of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of
Psychoanalysts UK. He is the author of Why do women write more
letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when it gets
late, Freud s Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa.
David Corfield is a researcher in the Department of Biological
Cybernetics at the Max Planck Institute and has been lecturer in the
history and philosophy of science at the Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford. He is the author of Towards a Philosophy of Real
Mathematics and editor of Foundations of Bayesianism.
