Originally written as a guide to young doctors coming into general medicine, many people whose lives have been touched by the diseases and syndromes discussed in this book, have found it both comforting and enlightening.

"Doctors don't need more time to talk to their patients, they need to listen more"
Dr JW Paulley

The reissue of A Guide to Psychosomatic Medicine, out of print and virtually unobtainable for nearly 20 years, has come at a very opportune moment.

At a time when many people are looking beyond 'scientific medicine' for more sympathetic holistic approaches to illnesses and healing, this book gathers together many strands of experience and research, tracing the interaction of emotional and the physical factors, the relationship of mind and body, in the causation and pattern of key group of disorders.

A Guide to Psychosomatic Medicine is a useful practical guide to all practitioners in the healing professions about how to listen, what to listen for and how to use that information to help the patient.

On this website you can read the full Foreword for both 1989 and 2006 editions of this book. You can also browse through a variety of extracts from chapters of the book. Finally, you can buy the book in our online shop.