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“Healing Psyche”, Rob van Overbruggen’s book, is a masterpiece of psychosomatic medicine in Cancer Therapy, and it’s a rare book....and to show his readers, that there is a chance, even you get cancer! This is not the END!!!
Buy this book---it will change your life if you will measure it against what is real instead of what you were taught.
dr george- ivan gal
Dr. O. Carl Simonton and his wife Karen highly recommended getting your book immediately (which we did)! My husband, Richard, and I work with Dr. Simonton at his residential cancer retreat programs. Carl is one of my mentors, in addtion to my other mentor, Norman Cousins. My company is The Power Of Play (www.thepowerofplay.com). Our work is based on "Applied Improvisation" with a focus on humor, healing and hope.
We are in love with your book, because you validate 25 years of anecdotal stories and feedback from our clients.
Thank you!
Blessings,
Rahla Kahn & Richard Rossner
Rahla Kahn & Richard Rossner
Healing Psyche provides such a complete and well grounded approach towards healing cancer, both patients and therapists will benefit from the careful explanations.
Up-to-date research findings, exploration of causes, handling the emotional aspects, useful question frames, comparisons of current treatment programmes, plus specific insights into the psychological approach are all combined in this easy-to-read book.
This useful resource is like an encyclopedia of understanding how to manage every aspect of treating cancer.
Dr. Van Overbruggen answers the questions every patient wants to know. He chooses to inform rather than prescribing one particular solution.
A must-read for every complementary therapist and every cancer patient.
Arielle Essex
Rob van Overbruggen brings us the best review and discussion of theories and research in mind-body influences and interactions with cancer.
This book is written clearly, well organized, rich in quotations from the numerous authors cited, replete with case examples, and an excellent resource for anyone interested wholistic healing of cancer.
Daniel J. Benor MD
Kein ganzheitlicher Krebskongress kommt um die Feststellung herum: Krebsheilung ist nur von der Psyche aus möglich. Und wie geht das, was bietet man dem Patienten an? Unübersehbar ist bereits jetzt die Zahl der spirituellen, psychotherapeutischen, psychologischen, psychoonkologischen etc. etc. Therapieansätze, aber der Überblick geht verloren.
Hier bietet das Buch von Rob van Overbruggen eine Hilfe an, deren Bedeutung überhaupt nicht überschätzt werden kann, die einfach klingt und unendliche Mühe erforderte: er hat sich über alle Verfahren informiert, sie beschrieben, gesichtet, geordnet und z.T. beurteilt. Wer immer in der unübersehbaren Szene für sich oder seine Patienten einen therapeutischen Ansatzpunkt sucht (und wer kennt sich wirklich aus?), braucht dieses Buch.
Dr. med. Hendrik Treugut
Rob van Overbruggen heeft met zijn Engelstalige boek "Healing Psyche, Patterns and Structure of Complementary Psychological Cancer Treatment (CPCT)" een bijdrage geleverd aan de psycho-oncologie. Zijn boek is een literatuur overzicht en analyse en gaat over de invloed van gedrag, gedachtenpatronen, emoties en omgangsmethoden op kanker, goed onderbouwd met wetenschappelijke literatuur. De therapieen die aan de orde komen zijn vooral gericht op het verbeteren van het algemeen welbevinden van een kankerpatient.
Vanwege zijn zeer grondige zoektocht naar wetenschappelijk onderzoek over dit onderwerp, kan Rob Overbruggen gefundeerd aanbevelingen doen wat voor onderzoek er in de toekomst nodig is, om dit veld van de psycho-oncologie nog beter te doorgronden.
Prof. dr. Jan M. Keppel Hesselink
arts-hypnotherapeut, farmacoloog, bioloog, acupuncturist ~ Prof. dr. Jan M. Keppel Hesselink ,IOCOB
HEALING PSYCHE is one of the most complete guides to the role of the mind in cancer to appear in years. This practical and authoritative book is a major accomplishment.
Larry Dossey MD
Medical Doctor ~ Author of Meaning & Medicine, Healing Words and The Power of Premonitions, Santa Fe
I am working for many years with cancer patients and over the years one get a feeling that our psyche plays a quite bigger role in cancer than most doctors knows. And it is no wonder that doctors know nothing about stress and cancer and psychological patterns and cancer - because they do not learn this at universities.
Even more the book from Dr. Rob van Overbruggen is so important because it is urgent needed that each therapist understands which role different psychological patterns are playing, not only for starting cancer, but also for surviving cancer.
I wish all oncologists would read this book
Lothar Hirneise
I have yet to get my hands on your book as Carl has loaned it out to many and several people have orded it on Amazon. He and Dr. Wirga are very impressed with it and have enjoyed it very much.
I understand you site the Simonton work! But do know that he recommends it hightly.
We will be recommending the book in our next newsletter
Carl Simonton MD
Medical Doctor ~ Carl Simonton is the author of Getting Well Again and The Healing Journey
I strongly urge every NLP Practitioner who works with clients facing health issues to buy and read this book, and to buy a second copy to loan to their clients. I simply have never seen such a thorough and courageous explanation of this field. My recommendation is: Read the book now!
Richard Bolstad
rob i think there is much useful information in your book and it is a good resource for people who want to begin to learn about this field of work but there are also some things that make me very uncomfortable and that relates to one example being the simonton imagery with bullets, war, poison etc for many people that is totally ineffective because it creates conflict and empowers the enemy and when we are not killers it has adverse side effects we need training in communication"
peace
bernie
Remark Rob van Overbruggen: Bernie you are right about the agressive imagery Simonton used to use. The use of more supportive imagery is one of the suggestions I make in the recommendations section.
Bernie Siegel MD
Healing psyche is an extremely informative read and full of resources. For me it could not have come at a better time as I am looking for methods of working with the psyche. Some of the references to research done really underline the importance of considering the psyche, whatever your training.
A thank you to the author for all the time put into distilling and drawing together this invaluable resource.
It’s a must read be you a layperson or practitioner.
Tremayne Reiss BSc
Qualified Medical Herbalist, Phytotherapist BSc, energy medicine practitioner
I carried this book throughout my 9-day journey in Germany, continually fascinated and intrigued by the information within. Due to a terrifically busy schedule I rarely read an entire book, but this one is packed with the most interesting and comprehensive stories, tips, and much more. It has made me focus more fully on the mind-body connection, and given me a much stronger basis for understanding. In my work as an advocate for people with cancer, this is going to be extremely useful.
Thank you for the experience.
Ann F.
Ann Fonda
I really found this book to be very inspiring, not only for working with clients who have cancer, but also for working with other physical problems. It is nice to have a good summary of all different technics used in the therapies available at this moment.
So far i have used the information with clients that have physical problems other then cancer (irritable bowel syndrom, migrain headache).
Great job !!
Leonie Looijen
Hypnotherapist ~ Den Hague
I feel more encouraged to help a person with cancer now as i have read about half of your book and loving it. I especially love the chapter on the emotional connection between the soul and the cancer such as being people pleasure i feel more encouraged to help a person with cancer now because of your book. Great job
Dr Richard B Habben
Psychologist - Riverside USA
It is becoming more generally accepted, both in the medical community and in the general populace, that the connection between mind and body in the human being is such a close one that these two may truly be seen not as dualism at all but as two aspects of the one phenomenon: one the gross-material, and the other the non-material: body and mind respectively. It is certain, therefore, if this premise is accepted, that what goes on in the mind will translate directly into what goes on in the body. That is fast growing realization, and a powerful motivation toward investigating how one may work with the mind in order to create and sustain physical health.
Rob van Overbruggen's book essentially addresses exactly this point, and it does so with consummate skill, using the simple language that is required for a clear and accurate description that truly enlightens the ideas surrounding the whole field of what is popularly termed Mind/Body therapy. What his concentration is in this work can easily be transferred to any and all physical maladies. The principles are universally applicable.
I recommend this work to everyone interested in the premise behind this book, and I do so without reservation
Alexander M. Docker, DCH, Ph.D
California
This informative and well-written book will help you to understand the link between emotions and other psychological patterns that influence the development and progression of cancer.
If you have or have had cancer, you may recognize yourself and/or your behaviours within these pages - I know I did!
Within this book, you will find information about current psychological models related to cancer patients and a concise summary of Dr. van Overbruggen’s work. He outlines numerous visualizations, behaviour modification strategies, hypnotherapy techniques and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) interventions to help identify and resolve root causes related to the development of cancer.
This book is a wonderful and practical tool to help practitioners and patients alike learn to appreciate the power of the mind. I personally enjoyed the anectotal stories that supported the extensive reference list of scientific studies/papers (close to 900 of them).
If you are living in fear of cancer, please read this book as a step towards becoming more knowledgeable and at peace with your relationship with cancer.
Barb Pierce - BEng, MBA, Master NLP practitioner, Coach and Certified Hypnotherapist
Met toenemende verwondering, verbazing, respect en bewondering heb ik Rob zijn boek “Healing Psyche” doorgenomen. Volgens ingewijden en kenners heeft Rob door het schrijven en uitgeven ervan, een fenomenale bijdrage geleverd op het gebied van de psycho-oncologie.
Dit stel ik vast op grond van wat ik heb meegemaakt in mijn ruim 20 jarige ervaring als Personal Coach. Voor mij is het boek inmiddels een bron van inzichten en mogelijkheden geworden dat ik graag binnen handbereik heb.
Rob bedankt!
Dick Verburg
This is a groundbreaking research paper that reads more like a page-turning novel. Full of absorbing case studies, Van Overbruggen presents some of the most provocative and mind-bending cancer research around.
In gorgeous, lucid prose, Van Overbruggen explains his world-shattering views on healing and discusses cancer from a medical and psychosomatic perspective.
This is a staggeringly brilliant and important book. Although nor primarily meant to be a self-help book for patients (its main intent is for the therapists and doctors), this is a book that offers hope and healing.
Ellen Tanner Marsh
New York Times best-selling author
Thank you, Dr. Rob van Overbruggen! You have really done a great service for humanity with this phenomenal work. With the use of volumes of research by some of the most respected names in both psychological cancer treatment and overall MindBody healing studies you have catapulted the MindBody Connection premise by ions; and, by your comprehensive overview have given us in the field some much needed validation.
Healing Psyche is a must read for anyone who doubts the power of the mind to heal or the power of the body to heal itself when blocks to healing have been removed; and, it has come at the perfect time as people's minds are becoming more open to alternative and complementary therapies since Traditional Medicine does not, obviously, have all the answers.
Carole Seaver MA, NCC, EFT-ADV, D.CEP
The point that Healing Psyche blows me away is where Rob presents the evidence that a majority of cancer patients share many unproductive personality traits. They will often care for others far more than for themselves – to their own detriment. They also often have issues with lack of self-worth, self-confidence and assertiveness, and shy away from conflict or expressing anger. Saying ‘No’ is also a big problem.
At the time of writing, someone close to me is dealing with cancer, and reading this section of Healing Psyche was like looking inside their mind. The similarities were shocking, but also empowered me to know what interventions I could work with.
Many cancer care books are either too lightweight or offer dense, complecated approaches. Rob’s book walks a clever middle road, with the text littered with poignant quotes and easy to relate to metaphors that throw light on this fascinating subject area.
I highly recommend this book to anyone using a mental, physical or spiritual approach with cancer clients.
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