Joachim Bauer was born in 1951 and works as a doctor, psychiatrist and specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine at the University Hospital of Freiburg. He has been a consultant and professor for psychoneuroimmunology since 1992. In 1996 he was awarded the renowned Organon Research Prize. In addition to many specialist articles he is the author of Das Gedächtnis des Körpers. Wie Beziehungen und Lebensstile unsere Gene steuern (’The Body’s Memory: How Relationships and Life Styles Control our Genes’). Previous works include: Das Gedächtnis des Körpers. Wie Beziehungen und Lebensstile unsere Gene steuern (Eichborn Verlag, 2002) Translation rights available from Hoffmann und Campe Verlag Harvestehuder Weg 42 20149 Hamburg, Germany Tel: +49 40 44 18 82 66 E-mail: nadja.kossack@hoca.de Contact: Nadja Kossack Applications for assistance with translation costs - Germany Hoffmann und Campe Verlag was founded in 1781 by Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann and his son-in-law August Campe. The family firm was Heinrich Heine’s publisher. Despite changing hands several times during the first half of the twentieth century, the firm managed to retain its liberal traditions. The international fiction list includes the complete works of Siegfried Lenz, as well as works by Doris Lessing, V.S. Naipaul, Andreï Makine, Irina Korschunow, John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell. The non-fiction lists include philosophy, politics, economics, music and theology