306 pages When The Body Says No demonstrates that: medical specialization has led doctors to focus on disease, and not on an understanding of the person in whom one arises; stress is a major factor in the onset of all chronic illness; most human stress is emotional in origin, but the result is a measurable set of physical events in the body, involving the brain, the hormonal apparatus, the immune system, and many other organs; suppressed emotions have physical consequences that can result in ill health; people can experience chronic stress with no awareness of its presence and, therefore, no ability to control it Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index 1. The Bermuda Triangle -- 2. The Little Girl Too Good to Be True -- 3. Stress and Emotional Competence -- 4. Buried Alive -- 5. Never Good Enough -- 6. You Are Part of This Too, Mom -- 7. Stress, Hormones, Repression and Cancer -- 8. Something Good Comes Out of This -- 9. Is There a "Cancer Personality"? -- 10. The 55 Per Cent Solution -- 11. It's All in Her Head -- 12. I Shall Die First from the Top -- 13. Self or Non-Self : The Immune System Confused -- 14. A Fine Balance : The Biology of Relationships -- 15. The Biology of Loss -- 16. The Dance of Generations -- 17. The Biology of Belief -- 18. The Power of Negative Thinking -- 19. The Seven A's of Healing