A Layman's Guide Where the Mind Is in the Brain

Marious Kim Jack, M.D. graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in psychology in 1953. He entered the University of Washington School of Medicine and graduated in 1957. His field of practice was in ophthalmology wherein he became a diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Association of Military Surgeons, a consultant to the University of Washington Medical School's Children's Hospital Division and the Fred Hutchison Cancer Center. From that professional reference, he has published thirty-five distinguished articles ranging from first observations on clinical signs of eye disease and the first description of the ophthalmologic complications of such an unusual condition as Graft vs. Host disease that often accompanies patients undergoing bone grafting for the leukemias and other blood borne illness. Nonetheless, during his training that included an unfailing love of psychiatry and throughout his practice of ophthalmology, he was forever intrigued with observations of patients with various diseases who seldom adhered to a single course of recovery. It was rather that diseases were name tags only and that depending on the patients' different mind sets some individuals bested their illness and others did not even though it was the same diagnosed disease. The belief that a body disease was not just a matter of molecular biology became the driving inspiration of this book.