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What peer reviewers have said about A Cry Unheard:
Dean Ornish, M.D. Professor, University of California Medical School and author, Love and Survival and Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease-- "In the field of mind/body medicine, Dr. James Lynch is one of the true pioneers. His classic The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness,
one of the field's most important books, was far, far ahead of its time, and helped inspire my own work. This new follow-up to The Broken Heart should encourage everyone to begin healing their hearts-physically, emotionally and spiritually"
Herbert Benson, M.D., Professor, Harvard University Medical School, and author of The Relaxation Response and Timeless Healing.--"A pioneer in the field of mind/body/interpersonal medicine has given us an updated, useful and wise prescription for better health and well-being."
Larry Dossey, M.D., Best selling author of Reinventing Medicine and Editor of the Medical Journal, Alternative Therapies-- Just when many people expected that high-tech medicine would be our salvation, an avalanche of evidence is showing that our health is highly dependent on
our loving connections with others. Love, connectedness, and empathy are not just feel-good issues; they are life-and-death factors for everyone. Dr. James Lynch is THE authority in this field
. If we expect to live long, healthy lives, we must come to terms with the information in this landmark book."
Ray Rosenman, M.D., Author of Type A Behavior and Your Heart
"This book is a gem that deserves wide readership,
because virtually everyone is personally involved in its contents. The author has devoted a great deal of time and a highly productive effort to gathering his material and has presented it so well that
it makes for easy reading. I recommend it highly as a valuable and immensely illuminating experience."
Paul Rosch, M.D. President of the American Institute of Stress, Editor, Stress Medicine-- "On the silver
anniversary of the publication of The Broken Heart comes this major new book, which should be received as an elegant gift of pure gold. Just the chapters on the links between school
failure, its consequent loneliness, and the stunning increased vulnerability to premature death decades later are enough to make this must reading for every parent, teacher, and policy maker in our
Nation."
Andrew Greeley, Professor of Social Science, University of Chicago, best selling author and columnist-- "James Lynch is one of the
pioneers of the so-called 'humanistic approach to medicine-the belief that the human organism is not merely a machine to be repaired but a person to be respected. His The Broken Heart,
which argued that heart disease and loneliness were intimately correlated, went on to become one of the most important and successful publications of its kind. Now in A Cry Unheard, he returns
with more evidence that failure and loss have a powerful impact on heart disease and blood pressure, and that the touch and kind words of a friendly human being can have an enormous effect on an ailing
patient. In particular, he demonstrates that school failure dooms many to a life of guilt and pain, as well as sickness and premature death. American medicine has been forced to take his work and that of
similar pioneers seriously. Now, in his second masterpiece, American education will have to listen to him, too."
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