Integrative Cancer Treatment: Reducing Mental-Emotional Suffering through Spiritual Experience

Integrative Practitioner Staff

January 9, 2014

By: Richard Schaub, PhDIntroduction:  A cancer diagnosis generates mental-emotional suffering because of its associations with painful treatment, disfiguring surgery and an uncertain long-term prognosis. The mental-emotional suffering includes shock, anxiety, terror, anger, envy of healthy others, groundlessness, and loss of the predictable future.It cannot be quantified how much this suffering disrupts the patients’ ability to rally the...

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