Cancer As a Turning Point

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Cancer As a Turning Point

Postby Josefine » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:26 pm

Cancer As a Turning Point: A Handbook for People with Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals by Lawrence LeShan



Cancer as a Turning Point is the book which has taught me the most for my work in death education (which is a form of life education). I can not recommend the book highly enough. It has inspired me. It is one of my favourite six books that cover the dying, death and bereavement spectrum. Cancer as a Turning Point is the first one, about living with cancer and using this to live more in line with who we really are, rather than doing what we think is expected of us. It is about living in a meaningful way so that one day we can die without regrets.

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Many years ago the 20 year old son of a friend of mine was ill with cancer. I gave him this book to read as he was going through chemotherapy. He recovered well and is fine now. He said that this book was the only book he could read at the time which would make him feel inspired and able to cope with his situation. This is surely the best recommendation anyone could give. I think this book benefits not only people dealing with cancer. It is a great book for anyone who wants to contemplate that our time here is limited and to use this awareness as a turning point to live a more meaningful and satisfying life. And of course I think doctors and therapists ought to read it.
Josefine Speyer, psychotherapist and co-founder of the Natural Death Centre charity, specialising in death education.

Here is a review of the book published on Amazon.com by Kathy Miriam:

This is an important, thoughtful book for thinking about complementary approaches to healing when living with cancer. The author does not call for replacing modern medicine but complementing it with therapeutic approaches that focus on getting the person with cancer to get in touch with highest aspirations and passions and to enact them! As someone living with a dangerous cancer right now (ovarian), the book is extremely helpful. I believe in combining conventional treatments with a lot of alternative treatments and am skeptical of magical thinking. But this book is in the best sense practical. It makes sense that one's immune system is boosted by even planning (as the author discusses) the enactment of one's life-dreams.
Josefine
 
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