Diseases seem to appear in people’s life like an undesired accident that interrupts the course of their life in an unexpected way. Nevertheless, physical illnesses are also a language form; many of the things we keep inside are expressed by our organs.
This study invites us to think about the disease not like a foreign event external to our psychical and emotional history, but as a part of the plot that makes up the story of our life. Numerous editions realized in other countries show the interest of the readers in the problematic explained on the book; and they also reflect that, beyond the multitude of problems that the medicine solves nowadays with a splendid technological development, there is an unsatisfied necessity that motivates, in patients, their close friends and an increasing number of doctors, a search that does not stop.







