Norman Cousins . Anatomy of the disease from the point of view of the patient . Thoughts on treatment and recovery. When Norman Cousins - the author of this book - suddenly fell ill, doctors believed that he had only one chance out of five hundred to recover. He decided to fight for his own health .. This book is not only a story of recovery, but also a reflection on what role in the struggle for recovery and return to active life plays the will of man, how important it is for everyone to gain faith in healing in order to mobilize all the resources of the body and help him cope with the disease. Robert Wilson wrote in his Quantum Psychology: "But without any Christian Science, shamanism, orgone, etc. p. well-known liberal activist Norman Cousins cured himself of serious illnesses three times. He had his own theory, according to which each person contains healing energy, which most of us simply do not know how to use. Having got into a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients at the age of 10, Cousins drew attention to the fact that optimistic patients statistically tend to recover and be discharged, and pessimists do not have such a tendency. And he consciously became an optimist, cured and led a rich, productive life for many years - he edited the Saterday Review, founded the Committee on Healthy Nuclear Policy, and so on. d. In 1979, Cousins fell ill with a very rare disease, ankylosing spondylitis, which slowly paralyzes the whole body and inevitably (with the exception of Cousins) ends in death within a year. Cousins checked out of the hospital and settled in a hotel (a safer place to live if you're sick, and usually much cheaper...) and treated himself with huge doses of laughter (for days watching movie comedies on video). One heretic doctor also gave him powerful doses of vitamin C intravenously. Cousins recovered completely and was able to walk normally. This is the first case of such healing described in the medical literature. In 1983, Cousins suffered a myocardial infarction and congestive cardiac arrest - usually such a combination leads to panic and death. Cousins refused to panic and die. He now teaches at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine (probably the only teacher without a medical education) and teaches doctors to activate the healing fighting spirit in every patient. in the network found another option with poor formatting and drawings. This option for Infanta I recognized and issued from my scans. The book is very good, it is constantly referred to in popular science literature, it is strange that no one has posted it so far.