Peter Chappell said: emotional environment that depresses the immune system and allowed the tissue changes to take place, for Peter Chappell the physiological changes that allow illnesses to develop and prevent the natural healing ability of the body from curing them, all are important. In this honest and out spoken book he has drawn not only on his extensive experience as a homoeopathic practitioner but also on his own life and personal exploration with psychotherapy. It is his view that the susceptibility to disease is usually created by a severe emotional shock to the system. This shock may occur at any stage of life. The homoeopathic approach to the patient varies between two poles. On the one hand the homoeopathic doctor prescribe for the presenting illness, while on the other, he listens in silence waiting for the patient to reveal the true center of his problem. The general signs of the shock in adults includes elevated stress hormones (as measured on the adrenal stress index s