“This book is written to appeal to a wide clinical audience, including physicians, nurses and other care providers. The understanding this book promotes could go far in improving the care all clinicians offer to their patients.”
Barry Gilbert, U of T Medicine Magazine, Winter 2015
“Overall, this book is an engaging one that healthcare workers of all kinds will find interesting, informative and helpful. The rest of us, who sometimes are patients, will also find this book worthwhile, and in reading it may even recognize issues in ourselves and in those we know. “
Keith Oatley, The Literary Review of Canada, April, 2016
‘Free from jargon, the text is easy to read, and each section provides several examples and a useful summary…. The book could help healthcare workers to better meet their patients’ needs and ultimately improve their health.’
Angela Davis, Nursing Standard February 2016
‘This book is an excellent contribution to the literature on human attachment as it relates to health issues. Highly recommended.’
M.C. Matteis, Choice Magazine vol 53:10:2016
“Love, Fear, and Health is brilliant. Every health care professional concerned with the psychological well-being of his or her patients should read it. More generally, I recommend this well-written and humane book to anyone concerned to understand why some people are happy and healthy, and others are not.”
David Naylor, Professor of Medicine and President Emeritus, University of Toronto
“What an excellent book! Fascinating, scientifically sound, clinically innovative, and gracefully written. While relying on attachment theory research for important applications to the health care field, it opens up topics for further research. It reads quickly and effortlessly because of its lucid prose, engaging author self-disclosures, and efficiently presented, highly instructive case examples. I thoroughly enjoyed it – as an attachment researcher, a sometimes patient negotiating today’s health care maze, and a fan of good stories about complex real beings.”
Phillip R. Shaver, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
“Popular medical science at its very best, Maunder and Hunter’s impressive book defies superlatives: readable, accessible, amusing, and profound. The authors show how the evidence-based science of attachment is the key that unlocks the puzzle of chronic illness and illness-promoting behaviours, and how, through understanding the lure and dangers of the ubiquitous ‘weak force’ of insecure attachment, both can be ameliorated. Hyperbole aside, this is one of those rare books destined to be essential reading for doctors and health workers, at all levels, worldwide, and for years to come.”
Jeremy Holmes, Visiting Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter
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