Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Appreciation
1. The First Clues
2. The Search for a Pattern
3. A Fuller Picture Emerges
4. The Emotional Life History of Cancer Patients
5. Stress and Susceptibility
6. Psychotherapy and the Cancer Patient
7. I Want to Live
8. The Third Road
9. The World of the Cancer Patient
10. What It Means to Fight for One's Life
Selected Bibliography

About the Author

Lawrence LeShan is an experimental psychologist whose books include Alternate Realities: The Search for the Full Human Being and The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist.