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Fighting Cancer From Within: How to Use the Power of Your Mind For Healing
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A breakthrough guide for cancer patients on using the mind to treat the body, from a pioneer incomplementary medicine
Recent research has shown that the mind can make a tremendous difference in not only the daily experience of living with cancer but also in the potential for overcoming it.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Martin L. Rossman-hailed as one of the greatest healers of our generation by Rachel Naomi Remen-shows cancer patients how to use imagery in specific ways that can help them in their fight against cancer.
Imagery is a natural, efficient way of storing and processing information, and one that has powerful effects on both emotional states and physiology. And while imagery is not a substitute for medical, surgical, or other physical approaches to cancer therapy, scientific studies have proven that it complements and enhances those treatments in many important ways. In this first book of its kind, Rossman provides specific ways to use imaging in fighting cancer.
Praise for Guided Imagery for Self-Healing:
This superb collection of imagery techniques is a landmark
contribution to the emerging field of behavioral medicine. -Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

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So many peoples influences are woven into this book. There are the professionals who introduced me early in my career to the idea that imagery and the mind could influence the course of cancer: Carl Simonton, Stephanie Simonton-Matthews, Larry LeShan, Irving Oyle, Arthur Gladman, Ken Pelletier, Jeanne Achterberg, Karl Pribram, Jerome Frank, George Solomon, Norman Cousins, and David Bresler.

The researchers who have provided evidence that this is true: Fawzy Fawzy, David Spiegel, Alastair Cunningham, Dean Schrock, Elizabeth Targ, Howard Hall, and Karin Olness.

The patients too numerous to mention who have taught me so much about living with cancer, and healing from cancer, especially: Beyhan Lowman, Karinna Berner, Roy Mackenzie Sykes, Diane Brandon, Jerome Freedman, and David and Marilyn Weisberg.

My beloved family members who each fought battles with cancer: my father, Manny Rossman, my grandparents Lou and Jesse Shapero, my uncle Merrill Shapero, my uncle Harold Zuker, my aunt Rebecca Rabinowitz, my cousin Sheldon Rabinowitz, and my cousin Linda Coleman.

Colleagues who have advanced professional and public awareness of how the mind functions in healing: Andy Weil, Jim Gordon, Michael Lerner, Bernie Siegel, Deepak Chopra, Emmett Miller, Jimmie Holland, Jeremy Geffen, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Joan Borysenko, Larry Dossey, Barbara Dossey, Harris Dienstfrey, Sheldon Lewis, Bonnie Horrigan, Candace Pert, and Steven Locke.

Oncologists, physicians, and other health professionals who have long supported me with their active interest and encouragement in my work with people with cancer: Bill Fair, Keith Block, Dean Ornish, David Gullion, Peter Eisenberg, Debu Tripathy, Howard Rossman, Richard Shames, Elson Haas, Michael Broffman, Mark Renneker, Julia Rowland, and Christopher Sato-Perry.

Thanks to Keren Stronach and Diane Brandon for their feedback on the manuscript as well as their pioneering work supporting cancer patients, and special thanks to my assistant Ginny Stripp who makes my office life easy and helps me get what I need to get done.

My deepest appreciation goes to Rachel Naomi Remen, a spiritual warrior and friend of the finest sort, who took the precious time to write the foreword, as she has always taken time for me when needed.

Thanks to Arielle Eckstut, my agent, and Deborah Brody, my editor at Holt, for their belief in the value of this book.

Thanks above all to my family who support me and love me while I periodically turn my attention inward in order to write. Mie, Marisa, and Mariel, you know I love you more than words can say.

Guided Imagery for Self-Healing

MARTIN L. ROSSMAN, M.D., is the cofounder and president of the Academy for Guided Imagery and is on the faculty of the medical school at the University California, San Francisco. The author of Guided Imagery for Self-Healing, he lives in Mill Valley, California.

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Richardson, M. A., Post-White, J., Grimm, E. A., Moye, L. A., Singletary, S. E., and Justice B. Coping, life attitudes, and immune responses to imagery and group support after breast cancer treatment. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 3(5) (1997): 6270.

Gruber, B. L., Hersh, S. P., Hall, N. R., Waletzky, L. R., Kunz, J. E, Carpenter, J. K., Kverno, K. S., and Weiss, S. M. Immunological responses of breast cancer patients to behavioral interventions. Biofeedback and Self Regulation, 18(1) (March 1993): 122; Hall, H., Minnes, L., and Olness, K. The psychophysiology of voluntary immunomodulation. International Journal of Neuroscience 69(14) (March-April 1993): 22134.

Tusek, D. L. Guided Imagery; a significant advance in the care of patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum , 40(2) (1997): 17278; Disbrow, E. A., Bennett, H. L., and Owings, J. T. Preoperative suggestion hastens the return of gastrointestinal mobility. Western Journal of Medicine 158 (5) (May 1993): 48892.

Syrjala, K. L., et al. Relaxation and imagery and cognitive-behavioral training reduce pain during cancer treatment: a controlled clinical trial. Pain 63 (1995): 18998; Integration of behavioral and relaxation approaches into the treatment of chronic pain and insomnia. NIH Technology Assessment Panel on Integration of Behavioral and Relaxation Approaches into the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia. JAMA ( Journal of the American Medical Association ) 276(4) (July 2431, 1996): 31318.

Troesch, L. M., et al. The influence of guided imagery on chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting. Oncology Nursing Forum 20(8) (September, 1993): 117985; Burish, T G., Conditioned side effects induced by cancer chemotherapy: Prevention through behavioral treatment. J Consulting & Clinical Psychology 55(1) (February 1987): 4248.

1: Cancer Diagnosis: Nightmare, Challenge, or Bump in the Road?

Watson, M., Haviland, J. S., Greer, S., Davidson, J., Bliss, J. M. Influence of psychological response on survival in breast cancer: a population-based cohort study Lancet 354(9187) (1999):133136.

Cassileth, B. R., Walsh, W P., and Lusk, E. J. Psychosocial correlates of cancer survival: a subsequent report 3 to 8 years after cancer diagnosis. J Clin Oncol 6(11) (1988): 175359.

Randomization and matching are two methods for eliminating bias in a study. When patients are randomly selected to be either in the treatment group or control (no treatment) group, it eliminates the effect of people choosing what they think will work best for them. When patients in each group are matched to each other for age, gender, and stage of disease, that makes it more likely that any survival differences are due to the intervention.

Fawzy, F. I., Fawzy, N. W, Hyun, C. S., Elashoff, R., Guthrie, D., Fahey, J. L., and Morton, D. L. Malignant melanoma. Effects of an early structured psychiatric intervention, coping, and affective state on recurrence and survival 6 years later . Arch Gen Psychiatry 50(9) (September 1993): 68189.

Shrock, D., Palmer, R. F., and Taylor, B. Effects of a psychosocial intervention on survival among patients with stage I breast and prostate cancer: a matched case-control study. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 5(3) (1999): 4955.

Cunningham, A. J., Edmonds, C. V, Phillips, C., Soots, K. I., Hedley, D., and Lockwood, G. A. A prospective, longitudinal study of the relationship of psychological work to duration of survival in patients with metastatic cancer. Psychooncology 9(4): 32339.

2: After Diagnosis: The First Three Weeks

Newell, S., et al. How well do medical oncologists perceptions reflect their patients reported physical and psychosocial problems? Data from a survey of five oncologists. Cancer 83(8) (1998): 164051.

3: Combating the Stress of Cancer

Complementary refers to treatments that support your health and complement your treatment, alternative refers to treatments chosen instead of conventional treatment.

Rosenbaum, Ernest H., M.D., and Rosenbaum, Isadora R., M.A. Supportive Cancer Care: The Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families. Sourcebooks Trade, 2001.

Classen, C., Butler, L. D., Koopman, C., Miller, E., DiMiceli, S., Giese-Davis, J., Fobair, P., Carlson, R. W, Kraemer, H. C., and Spiegel, D. Supportive-expressive group therapy and distress in patients with metastatic breast cancer: a randomized clinical intervention trial. Arch Gen Psychiatry 58(5) (2001): 494501.

Benson, H., and Wallace, R. The physiology of meditation. Scientific American 226 (1972): 8490.

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