This is the story of an award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was diagnosed with a brain tumour by his own MRI machine at the age of thirty. It is the story of a doctor turned patient who, after overcoming cancer against the odds, started a twenty-year crusade to inform people about the disease and inspire them to take responsibility for their health. It is the story of a husband and father who is told that the cancer has returned, and that he only has a short time left. This is a story about dying. But most of all, it is a story about living.

'A staggering manual for living' - Paris Match

'Each word rings true, each memory lingers, each detail of his life, now in limbo, brings us closer to the human condition. This book is a gift' - Elle

David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. His first book, Healing Without Freud or Prozac was an international bestseller, and his second book, Anticancer, was a number one international bestseller. Following a year-long battle with a relapse of brain cancer, David Servan-Schreiber passed away in July 2011.