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With regards to my ex-colleague and the death wish, I should point out that I was suspended over sending him jokes to cheer him up primarily I believe because of how he interpreted the covering note with them. My wife made me realize this today. I had put "Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it!" in reply to what he had said to everybody last time he was in, which was "Send me your jokes, I need cheering up!" He had interpreted the message to mean the cancer and wanted to go to the police about it but was persuaded by more reasonable staff to question me and find out what I had actually meant (It still didn't stop me getting suspended, pending further enquires though).

Please disregard the double posting!

The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff (ISBN 0-14-019245-X) Arkana/ 2001 (Child birth & Child care: This is my wife's handbook as a health visitor)

Most of these books were written by Doctors. You should be able to get copies - even if only second hand over the internet at Amazon etc., that is if you haven't come across some of them before (I'm 57 and in England, so came across them all - you may be younger and where you live, might not have published some of them).

PS Got some nice artwork (self-created) that demonstrates my belief on the depression/ elation effect, let me know if you'd like to see the pair and if you can take them or if you have download limits and can't (Can post, if you give me a snail mail address or you can visit the following link Box.net | Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement, Team Workspaces ~ Free Version)

Tried emailing you the two following posts - please let me know if you got it or just these versions?

Thought you might be interested in these books as a medical professional, some of which relate to various topics on the Hypography Forums site (half mine, half my wife's).

The Four Pillars of Healing - Leo Galland (ISBN 0-679-44888-8)Randon House/ 1997

Love your Disease, it's Keeping you Healthy - Dr John Harrison (ISBN 0-207-14799 X) Angus & Robertson/ 1984 (Can't say I agree with all his points but it does make interesting reading from the point of view, of illness and placebo).

The Healing Power of Illness - Dethlefsen & Dahlke (ISBN 1-85230-123-6) Element/ 1990

Why Animals don't get Heart Attacks but People do - Matthias Rath (ISBN 90-76332-03-7) MR Publishing/ 1998

Vaccination, the Medical Assault on the Immune System - Viera Scheibner (ISBN 0-646-15124-X) Self-Published/ 1993

The Body's Many Cries for Water - F. Batmanghelidj (ISBN 0-9629942-3-5)Global Health Solutions/ 1998

Foods that Cause you to Lose Weight - Neal Barnard (ISBN 1-882330-00-5) The Magni Group/ 1992

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The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff (ISBN 0-14-019245-X) Arkana/ 2001 (Child birth & Child care: This is my wife's handbook as a health visitor)

Most of these books were written by Doctors. You should be able to get copies - even if only second hand over the internet at Amazon etc., that is if you haven't come across some of them before (I'm 57 and in England, so came across them all - you may be younger and where you live, might not have published some of them).

PS Got some nice artwork (self-created) that demonstrates my belief on the depression/ elation effect, let me know if you'd like to see the pair and if you can take them or if you have download limits and can't (Can post, if you give me a snail mail address or you can visit the following link Box.net | Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement, Team Workspaces ~ Free Version)

By the way, the colleague I was on about I think has a death wish and my intervention disclosed this, which he considered rude as was in denial about it - anybody else might have laughed off my blunders because of this, like Norman Cousins did with his illness but not he: As my wife says 'You can't help people who don't want to be helped'.

I don't know if you're still visiting the Placebo thread but I thought I'd let you know that most of my references come from Norman Cousin's book 'Anatomy of an Illness', which by coincidence I got after starting this question, only to discover that he was a strong advocate of this kind of medicine in the 60's (Book is full of details that the TV film couldn't include).

By the way, have you heard of Paul Brand? He covered a whole chapter on him and how his discoveries and pioneering surgery, altered the perception of the disease and its treatment (Popular preconception was that it caused the body to rot but the truth is that it led to nerve damage, which meant extremities were lost through accidents, not decay (No pain, equalling no awareness of damage/ loss).