DR. DAVID SPIEGEL, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. His groundbreaking study (1989) of breast cancer patients showed that women who had psychosocial interventon lived twice as long, after diagnosis, as those without that intervention. His book, "Living Beyond Limits" (paperback, Ballintine Books) covers research on mind/body interactions, how to build sustaining support networks, control pain through self-hypnosis and detoxify fears of dying. Dr Spiegel says, "the fact we do not control death does not mean we cannot control how we live in the face of dying." (REBROADCAST FROM 9/
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