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This book outlines a four week treatment program, "danger" foods and foods to enjoy, a low protein toxin-free basic diet, and basic recipes and menu ideas. ... Read more

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Le psoriasis est une maladie de la peau dont la caractéristique est de rendre la peau rouge, irritée et sensible. Le traitement naturel du psoriasis vous expose les découvertes récentes concernant les causes et les facteurs à risques, les traitements conventionnels, les approches les plus efficaces en médecine douce et comment choisir une thérapie qui vous convient. ... Read more

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At Last : A Readable and Concise Comprehensive Resource!
If you are an adult with Psoriasis - you know that one of the major suffering is trying to get treatment that is effective and does not create other side effect conditions. Once I was asked to sign a release form for treatment that freed the practitioner from resposibility for the possibility of my contracting liver cancer. When I refused to sign the nurse told me point blank that if she had my condition she would risk any illness to get rid of it. This doctor was a well known pioneer of main stream treatments used today.

"Psoriasis" by Hilary Bower brings together current knowledge in a precise way. It is written more from a European point of view and combines information from drug technology, therapeutic practises, nutrition, mental and emotional health, homeopathy, and accupressure. This is a slim book of 134 pages that has helped bring together what I have learned from my own experience and research, my visits to some 20 or more medical doctors and about ten years of seeing around ten alternative practioners. I found it in the library and now I am buying it, because I need it with me daily to learn to be healthy. ... Read more

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An excellent handbook for people with psoriasis ...
This is a small handbook for psoriasis patients, using language that any high school graduate can understand. Numerous illustrations and case summaries help explain what psoriasis is, how it is triggered, and how it can be treated. Each chapter concludes with a list of "Facts to Remember" that highlights do1s and dont1s for the patient. Especially notable is the concluding chapter, "It's Up To You," which encourages the reader to take a pro-active role in controlling the disease. Also notable is the chapter on "Total Care," which emphasizes the importance of each patient1s general health and lifestyle as they relate to his or her psoriasis. As one who has struggled with psoriasis for 35 years, I am especially glad to have so much valuable information summarized in one small book. Even more important, I believe, is the overall message: that we patients are capable of understanding the basics of psoriasis, and with optimism and persistance, can do a great deal to help ourselves. Dermatologists should present this book to every psoriasis patient over 12 years of age, especially in this era of managed care. Three minutes with the doctor and another prescription simply cannot provide the information and encouragement that are so important to psoriasis patients. ... Read more

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A wonderful book
As a resident in dermatology, I can strongly recommend this book. It provides concise thorough chapters on many aspects psoriasis, including its different clinical manifestations. Perhaps of most use are the chapters on treatment which summarise very well how to use the oral immunosupressive medications, retinoids, tar, light and more. Highly recommended for 1st and 2nd years.

An excellent addition to any Dermatologists bookshelf
The Handbook of Psoriasis would make an excellent addition to any Dermatologist's bookshelf. Concise and complete, this reference provides current and pertinent information on all aspects of psoriasis ranging from classification and genetics to pathology and treatment. The chapters pertaining to treatment are especially comprehensive and would definitely assist the clinician in the treatment of this often frustrating illness, regardless of their career level. I was very impressed by the discussion on the immunosuppressant and retinoid drugs. Nebulous topics in most texts, Camisa eloquently clarifies the most essential factors regarding the use of these drugs(critical information that will be valuable not only for psoriasis but other dermatological disease entities as well). A definite "keeper" of a book which I highly recommend.

A must for anyone who call's him/herself a dermatologist
I read the entire book cover to cover in one week, and I will now keep it in my clinic jacket. The content was succinct, thorough, and up to date. The writing style made reading easy, and the format will allow for quick referencing. Finally, there is an affordable, comprehensive source providing clear guidelines for treating complex psoriasis with high risk medications. ... Read more

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Honestly, a disappointment
I felt that the book did not deliver at all what the title suggests. There is a VERY short section on eczema, and it is frankly contradictory to anything else I've read or been told by a professional. If you are buying this for the purpose of information/help with eczema, don't waste your time. ... Read more

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Of tremendous interest and value to medical students
In the six separate patient studies comprising Why Do We Fall Ill?: The Story Hiding In The Body, Dr. Luis Chiozza explores the question of how helpful an articulate patient is to the determination of why and how a somatic disorder develops, and the choice and impact of therapeutic options. Why Do We Fall Ill? will prove of tremendous interest and value to medical students, practicing physicians, health care providers, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the psychological treatment of "somatic" disorders to improve the outcome of therapy.

Understanding the body-mind relationship
Following Freud's findings, CHIOZZA pursues the concept of a language of the body, that provides a clue for the understanding of the different diseases. Once the body language is deciphered, the disease can be understood as a means of communication, as well as the expression of the drama that is suffered by the patient. This book consists of six investigations developed by the Department of Research of the Weizsaecker Medical Consultation Center, headed by Dr. LUIS CHIOZZA. The book explains the method for the psychoanalytic understanding of the patient, and of the role that the disease plays in each particular case. Thus, each patient is seen as a story in which the disease is both the symbol and the shelter of a drama that unfolds in the malfunctioning of the body.

Usable for kindling only....
Dr. Chiozza and collegues in an attempt to explore/articulate the connection between body and mind seems to have fixated on a rather bizarre theory. If you believe that Freud, Freudian theory has ANY serious merit, validity in todays world, this tome will work just fine for you.

If not, put it BACK on the shelf with other Freudian work(s), and avoid it like the plague...

Highly recommended. A turning point in somatic ilnesses
This book is excellent. It is a starting point, which is a turning point in the conception of somatic ilnesses. This book gives us the elements to think of the specific meaning of each somatic disorder. Dr. Chiozza and colleagues comnicate findings from their many years of research (at the Luis Chiozza Foundation in Argentina) of the hidden affects in somatic disorders. The authors, following Freud, in an idea that has not beeb worked through by psychoanalysts, think that each affect has an "innervation key" - an unconscious affective structure - that determines his specific quality. As Freud said, "supress the development of a conflictive affect is the true aim of repression". Dr. Chiozza explain that the impossibility of the conscious discharge affect motivated by repression promotes the discharge of the cathexis across one element of the innervation key of each affect. In "somatic ilnesses" some elements of an affect's innervation key are more intensely invested than others. When its innervation key is thus deformed, an affect may be hidden in that it is perceived as a somatic process. It is in this sense that physical disorders are thought of as hidden affects. The author's way in exposing the research of somatic disorders such as headache, cerebrovascular disease,diabetes, respiratory disorders and asthma, and bone disorders, among others, it's very interesting and appealing. All of them hold to a similar research framework. In each disorder, Dr. Chiozza and colleagues detect a specific unconscious fantasy, which enlarges our knowledge of what happens in an ill person. I highly recommended this book to psychoanalysts and clinicians, ans perhaps we can reconsider and expand our concepts of the role of psychoanalytical inquiry in the study and inverstigation of somatic disorders. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more