La paura delle malattie

2,500 patients cured, 30 years’ experience, 30 published books translated worldwide. The greatest representative of Strategic Therapy: 350,000 copies sold.

Made famous by Molière and his Imaginary Invalid, the fear of illness doesn’t seem to be losing its grip on people, and presents an apparently paradoxical challenge to medicine and its continued progress. The terror that undermines daily life, the constant demand for medical help and treatment, and the complaints about pain, are deeply real to patients and have a negative impact on their lives as well as those close to them. This book shows how, by means of many fun and paradoxical techniques one can, within a short space of time, emerge from the vicious circle of hypochondria. A comprehensive, exhaustive volume which doesn’t just demonstrate the effectiveness of therapy in treating this condition with an account of clinical cases, but also provides useful advice for preventing it.