Wrestling With the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over IllnessJournalist Max Lerner writes a stunningly honest account of the feelings and thoughts that marked his battle with two successive cancers and a heart attack. Journal entries from this extraordinary ordeal show how mind and body interweave in the healing process. "A worthy companion to Anatomy of an Illness." —Kirkus Reviews |
Contents
Authors Note | 11 |
Contingency Is King | 19 |
The Locus of the Evil | 27 |
The Torment of Choice | 37 |
The Universe of the Ill | 47 |
Dont Take My Night Away | 59 |
You Have Two Cancers | 77 |
Dont Let Them Do an Abelard on You | 95 |
A Medical Miracleand a Medical Museum | 111 |
Thank God Its Only a Heart Attack | 117 |
The Doctor Within the Patient | 137 |
The Last Voyage | 145 |
Confronting Death Asserting Life | 167 |
Notes | 196 |
| 205 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aging Andrew Schally Angel anginas arterial asked assert battle Becker body brain Buserelin cells chemotherapy continued count D. H. Lawrence Dame dark Dean Ornish death Dick Silver disease doctors drug earlier early effect energy episode Ernest Becker experience face fear feel felt fight friends happened healing heart attack hormone hospital human illness immune system Jenny Jerry Barondess Jim Holland journal entry journal note knew later learned Lerner LHRH live lung lymphoma Mary Ellin Barrett medicine Milton Erickson mind mind-body mood moved myth never night Norman Cousins oncological nurse organism pain patient phase prostate cancer radiation reality role self-healing selfhood seminars sense shaman sick soul spleen stage stress surgery symptoms talk teaching tests therapy thing thought tion told torment of choice traditional treatment tumor turn universe walking wanted watching writing wrote York young
References to this book
Pastoral Care with Young and Midlife Adults in Long-term Care Jackie Sullivan No preview available - 2007 |