Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with

Surgeon Bernie S. Siegel gives an inspirational, first-hand account of how patients can participate in their own recovery.

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals.

Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.

• Doctor-Patient Relationship: Siegel challenges authoritarian medical hierarchy, urging patients to question fatalistic prognoses, assert control over treatment options, and establish collaborative partnerships with their physicians.
• Case Studies: Clinical histories document how individuals confronting advanced malignancies, including lymphosarcoma and metastatic breast cancer, mobilized unexpected remissions through psychological renewal and radical lifestyle changes.
• Actionable Strategies: Practical techniques including spontaneous colored crayon drawings, relaxation exercises, and guided visualizations allow patients to decipher unconscious fears and redirect mental energy toward physical recovery.
• Mind-Body Connection: Scientific research illustrates how the hypothalamus, endocrine system, and central nervous system translate despair or emotional peace into measurable biological signals that regulate immune defense.
• Also by This Author: How to Be An Exceptional Patient.