Wierd thoughts on life.

[RCMerchant]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illness_as_Metaphor

"At the time that Sontag was writing, the fad in alternative cancer treatment was psychotherapy for the patient's supposed "cancer personality". According to these proponents, patients brought cancer upon themselves by having a resigned, repressed, inhibited personality. By undergoing the often blame-filled psychotherapy offered by some groups, such as the Simonton Center, the patient would overcome cancer by consciously choosing to give up the emotional benefits he or she created the cancer for, and be healed.[5"

Sontag sounds like a quack, to me.

[Alex]

It is odd to look at the things our ancestors believed like that. I wonder what generations to come will think of things we currently believe?

[chefzombie]

ronny, i think she wasn't the quack, she just wrote about them. and i'd say no to lester's question too. cancer runs rampant thru my maternal side and it takes liberals and conservatives alike.

[lester1/2jr]

RC - chef is correct, she was EXPOSING this mentality not promoting it.