The Psychosomatic Delusion

Is there a personality type that causes cancer? Can moods affect the course of disease? Many popular health books argue that our psyches control our diseases, in effect making us responsible for our own illnesses. In this text, Dantzer aims to show that our body is as likely to control our psyche as the reverse. He explains how our body's chemistry can determine our mood and personality and discusses the latest findings on how stress does and does not affect our immune systems.