Abstract
It was with great anticipation that I received and read the third edition of this classic. As Norman Cousins wrote in the foreword, Few medical investigators have probed more thoroughly the reality of a belief system and its effect on the healing system than has Frank. Having marked up and dog-eared the first edition (1961) in residency and the second edition (1973) in teaching, I was not disappointed with this recent revision and expansion. It is coauthored by Dr Jerome Frank, professor emeritus at Hopkins, and his daughter, Dr Julia Frank, an excellent scholar and Yale-trained clinician now at the University of Texas at Austin. Persuasion and Healingtreats a topic that no doctor, whatever the specialty, can afford to ignore: psychotherapy. This is so because every physician begins a clinical encounter with a whole person embedded in a historical and current family and social network. The doctor has no
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