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Remarkable Recovery: What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us About Getting Well and Staying Well Mass Market Paperback – February 1, 1996

by Caryle Hirshberg (Author), Marc Ian Barasch (Author), Larry Dossey (Foreword)

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A study of individuals who have miraculously recovered from terminal illnesses draws on medical, genetic, psychological, and spiritual profiles to help define the nature of healing and human health. Reprint.

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Riverhead Books
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February 1, 1996
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5.86 x 0.99 x 8.84 inches
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1573225304
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978-1573225304
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The authors examine cases of spontaneous recovery from terminal illness by the body's own healing systems.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books (February 1, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1573225304
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1573225304
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.86 x 0.99 x 8.84 inches

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Beauty and Healing

So Much Hope, and so Much We Can Learn From This Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 9, 2015

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This is a book that I've been waiting a long time to read. The author attempts to go where the medical profession dares not go by studying the components of healing that are not covered by medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. I've been blessed to know several people in my life who overcame remarkable odds against them by surviving conditions deemed terminal by the medical establishment. While there are many different stories and many things that we learn from these stories, we are given the gift of understanding how knowledge, attitude, spirituality , faith and nature can circumvent illness after medicine has given up. This book is for all people who want to get well but have the odds stacked against them. I found the text truly inspiring.

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Vivien

Impressive!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2021

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Interesting vignettes from people who have experienced healings. Great resource for readers who seek more information on this topic.

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Sara Mccracken

helped me feel optimistic about my cancer outcome

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2012

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This book helped me greatly when on chemo. Each chapter is short... I didn't have a long attention span. These are all stories of people with bad diagnoses who did really well. This was just what I needed to lift my mood on the bad days. I have given several copies away to others in the same position and all have loved it.

9 people found this helpful

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A. Mezera

Read this!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2014

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This will help get your head right if you've received a diagnosis from doctors with a doom and gloom attitude. This book shares wonderful stories of how positive thinking can help one self-heal. Very inspiring.

5 people found this helpful

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V. B. Price

Very importsnt

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2016

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Among the most important books of its kind. Nothing mustical, just solid empirical evidence of healings that the medical establishment has buried.

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Dr Richard Talsky

A unique study of healing that were unexpected with back story and characteristics likely to enhance the healing process

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2014

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An unprecedented look at what humans are capable of in healing when healing is considered impossible

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M. Seibert

An Encouraging Book about Surviving Cancer and other serious illnesses

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2010

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This book has been in print for several years. Well written and encouraging for those facing serious illness. Would be great if updated and re-printed.

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Lyn M

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2008

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The book ordered arrived promptly and in good order. I am very satisfied with the service. The book is filled with inspiring stories and is already out on loan to someone with a life-threatening condition.

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Lady Fancifull

Why is this reality so secret?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 26, 2010

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I read this book back in 1998 for some studying I was doing about Psychoneuroimmunology (the way you feel influences the hormones and neurotransmitters you produce, and these have a direct effect on your immune system)

I was reading a lot of books about a similar territory at that time, but this one really stuck in the memory.

Biochemist Hirschberg was interested in the phenomenon sometimes called 'Spontaneous Remission' where a generally terminal or seriously progressive illness, for no understandable medical reason, vanishes, sometimes almost overnight.

Mainstream medicine has always been a little leery, and indeed sometimes dismissive of this - because it doesn't fit into currently understood paradigms. Hirshberg widened her research into 'spontaneous remission' to also include people diagnosed with serious progressive conditions who may not have completely had the condition vanish, but in whom progression of the illness was much much slower than might have been expected.

This book is an extremely welcoming and encouraging book, not least because it is a well researched book, written by a scientist (and also by a journalist) It contains not just inspirational stories of 'remarkable recoveries' but statistics - proving that such recoveries are far more common than is generally thought, and examining, in great detail, exactly who gets better, and possibly why.

Hirshberg interestingly discovered that the most statistically significant reason for remission/recovery was not the medication or method of treatment (mainstream or alternatives) not the diet, not the lifestyle, not the type of personality or outlook you have, not your faith or belief - but the quality of your interpersonal relationships. It is our connection to others, our community, which seemed to be the statistically most common thread that unites those experiencing recovery. And that rather than being a 'simple reproducable formula' the immune system seems to be more of a whole complexity of processes which can be perhaps be activated by a variety of factors - which absolutely includes the whole being of a person - a gestalt more than a reduceable

Its a great shame this book appears to be out of print. It holds gold within its pages. It continues to be surprising and disappointing that mainstream science doesn't devote more attention to what on earth might be going on when 'remarkable recoveries' occur. The great mysteriousness and wonderful ability of our bodies and minds to heal should be more widely studied and encouraged. We might all be able to benefit from what these remarkable recoveries have to teach us.

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Dr Dominique Dock

A good read to open up a future for patients

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 13, 2013

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This book, which I haven't finished reading yet, has answered some of my questions about "remission" in cancer, survival "abnormalities", etc... note that I have still to read half of the book, and my next question is: How can I, as a medical professional, increase chances for my patients to recover/survive/get better/heal? and all this without raising false hopes.
One notion that I get from these authors is that there is no such thing as false hopes! maybe BECAUSE hopes are based somewhere we do not have access to?...

4 people found this helpful

Mrs. Gloria Evelyn

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 30, 2018

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REALLY AMAZING BOOK WITH WONDERFULL HEALING TESTIMONIALS

Margaret McCooey

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 18, 2015

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A most encouraging book!

vipattie

Remarkable book examining why some people get better

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 18, 2019

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This is a book I have bought multiple times for people facing the reality of cancer, as I did myself. . It was seminal research in its time and inspiring to read and reread. I highly recommend this book to anyone feeling the desperation of a cancer diagnosis. It is an awesome book based on the initial investigations into why some people get well.

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