The unifying theme of this book is that healing calls for making meaning out of illness. Stories have arcs that organize experience into meaning, as they grow from the initial alarm into conflict and struggle in pursuit of a goal, and finally come to a resolution. Marc Ian Barasch uses classic films...
I like all of Bernie's books for the same reasons. Dr. Bernie Siegel is a practicing MD who realizes that healing is so much more than an application of remedies and treatments issued by a medical professional. With a great deal of wit and humbleness he discusses some of the remarkable events that h...
Again, as with his other books, Bernie's sense of compassion and desire to empower people to be their own healers is very apparent. Bernie offers a gift of hope to those with serious illness as well as their loved ones. So much of the modern medicine is based on what the MD says and not enough empha...