Thorwald Dethlefsen, who is committed to a holistic-humanistic psychology, and the physician Rüdiger Dahlke present in this groundbreaking work a path to a deeper understanding of illness. The authors aim to illustrate what infections, headaches, accidents, heart and stomach pains, as well as the major, still tabooed ailments like cancer and AIDS, are trying to tell us. All symptoms have a deeper meaning for our lives: they convey valuable messages from the spiritual realm. Understanding the various illnesses opens up a new, better way for each of us to find ourselves.