Why People Get Sick: Exploring the Mind-

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between mental and physical health. A stomach ache before a job interview is common enough—but how else can the mind affect the body? Can conditions like heart disease, cancer, asthma or arthritis be exacerbated, or relieved, by our own thoughts and feelings? Have you ever wondered why people get sick when they do? Does the mind really affect the body? And why does modern medicine seem to have so little interest in the unconscious process and emotional factors behind illness? And what—if anything—can we do about it?