The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease

by Paul Martin and Paul R. Martin

Book Overview

'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement

'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is a highly civilised scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses. He also provides many examples from literature, ranging widely from Shakespeare, Goethe and Hardy to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka... Interesting, informative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006550223
• ISBN13: 9780006550228
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening,

A must read for reductionists and mystics alike. For reductionists: it might change your mind to look beyond the material world for the cause and cure of disease. For the mystic: a ray of light in the skeptic post Victorian world of cold materialistic empiricism.

Astounding examples

This book fundamentally changed the way I see people, health and life. It is full of great insights into stress and its effects on personal health. Everyone knows that stress can negatively affect our health but this book brings home, how and why and just how great the impact is. The author provides many great real world examples of the negative effect of stress in specific individual instances as well as its effect on larger populations. The examples are astounding, objective and detailed.