Synopses & Reviews
At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health -- the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name. In a remarkably short period of time, Bill Moyers's Healing And The Mind has become a touchstone, shaping the debate over alternative medical treatments and the role of the mind in illness and recovery in a way that few books have in recent memory. With almost half a million copies in print, it is already a classic -- the most widely read and influential book of its kind. In a series of fascinating interviews with world-renowned experts and laypeople alike, Bill Moyers explores the new mind/body medicine. Healing And The Mind shows how it is being practiced in the treatment of stress, chronic disease, and neonatal problems in several American hospitals; examines the chemical basis of emotions, and their potential for making us sick (and making us well); explores the fusion of traditional Chinese medicine with modern Western practices in contemporary China; and takes an up-close, personal look at alternative healing therapies, including a Massachusetts center that combines Eastern meditation and Western group therapy, and a California retreat for cancer patients who help each other even when a cure is impossible. Combining the incisive yet personal interview approach that made A World Of Ideas a feast for the mind and the provocative interplay of text and art that made The Power Of Myth a feast for the imagination, Healing And The Mind is a landmark work.
Synopsis
At last, the paperback edition of the monumentalbest-seller (almost half a million copies inprint ) that has changed the way Americans think aboutsickness and health -- the companion volume to thelandmark PBS series of the same name. In aremarkably short period of time, Bill Moyers'sHealing And The Mind has become atouchstone, shaping the debate over alternative medicaltreatments and the role of the mind in illness andrecovery in a way that few books have in recentmemory. With almost half a million copies in print, it is already a classic -- the most widely readand influential book of its kind. In a series offascinating interviews with world-renowned expertsand laypeople alike, Bill Moyers explores the newmind/body medicine. Healing And TheMind shows how it is being practiced in thetreatment of stress, chronic disease, and neonatalproblems in several American hospitals; examines thechemical basis of emotions, and their potentialfor making us sick (and making us well); exploresthe fusion of traditional Chinese medicine withmodern Western practices in contemporary China; andtakes an up-close, personal look at alternativehealing therapies, including a Massachusetts centerthat combines Eastern meditation and Western grouptherapy, and a California retreat for cancerpatients who help each other even when a cure isimpossible. Combining the incisive yet personal interviewapproach that made A World Of Ideasa feast for the mind and the provocative interplayof text and art that made The Power OfMyth a feast for the imagination, Healing And The Mind is a landmark work."
Table of Contents
The healing roles of doctor and patient / Thomas Delbanco -- The healing environment / Ron Anderson -- Healing and the community / David Smith -- Self-regulation and conditioning / Karen Olness -- Changing life habits / Dean Ornish -- Meditation / Jon Kabat-Zinn -- Stress reduction / John Zawacki -- Therapeutic support groups / David Spiegel -- The chemical communicators / Candace Pert -- Emotions and the immune system / Margaret Kemeny -- The brain and the immune system / David Felten -- Conditioned responses / Robert Ader -- Medicine in a mind/body culture ; Another way of seeing / David Eisenberg -- Healing / Michael Lerner -- Wholeness / Rachel Naomi Remen.