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The psychological approach to cancer is covered in Chapter 2 and includes:

• providing sympathetic counselling to help in the recovery from the shock and trauma of diagnosis and re-diagnosis, and in facing the pain and loss

• ongoing support to rise to the challenge of the illness and its treatment

• using psychological approaches to increase the chances of recovery through:

a positive coping style

getting out of depression

finding the meaning or message of the illness

using illness to change to a far more fulfilling lifestyle

using positive mind – body approaches such as visualization, affirmation and hypnotherapy suggestion (where mind – body medicine is used as a form of alternative medicine).