This book by Donna Jackson Nakazawa, was reviewed by Gretchen Heber on Autoimmunemom.com. Here's a part of that review:

Nakazawa had spent a lifetime battling multiple autoimmune and other disorders, including small-fiber sensory neuropathy, pacemaker-controlled vasovagal syncope (a fainting and seizure disorder), pancytopenia (low blood cell count), Von Willebrand disease (lack of sufficient blood clotting) and thyroiditis.  She’d been hospitalized and paralyzed twice with Guillain–Barré syndrome, which left her with nerve damage, muscle damage and spasms.

So after years seeing multiple doctors, of trying different diets, treatments and medications, she had a life-changing meeting with an insightful and respected Johns Hopkins doctor. The doctor carefully examined her thick file and asked an unexpected question, “Did anything happen in your childhood that could have contributed to all this?” Stunned and wondering how the doctor had guessed, and what something that had happened decades ago had to do with her current health problems, Nakazawa answered “yes” — her beloved father had died unexpectedly when she was 12, and her mother had plunged into a deep grief that left the pre-teen girl largely on her own. 

Her physician told her about the ACE Study. It made such sense to Donna that she and her physician developed a one-year course of psychotherapy and mind-body therapies.

I haven't read the book, but the review and table of contents intrigued me enough that I've ordered it.