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Healing and the mind

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A companion volume to the PBS series features interviews that explore the new mind/body medicine, discussing its uses, the chemical bases of emotions, the fusion of traditional Chinese and Western practices, and more.

Author(s): Moyers, Bill D.; Grubin, David éd; Flowers, Betty Sue ed
Publisher: Doubleday
Year: 1993

Language: English
Pages: 369
City: New York, Toronto
Tags: 1. Healing—Psychological aspects. 2. Medicine and psychology. 3. Mind and body. 4. Psychophysiology. 5. Holistic medicine;Alternative & complementary medicine;Holistic Health;Mental Healing -- psychology;Psychophysiology

Introduction by Bill Moyers
Editor's Note
I THE ART OF HEALING
The Healing Roles of Doctor and Patient 7
The Healing Environment 25
Healing and the Community 47
II HEALING FROM WITHIN
Self-Regulation and Conditioning 71
Changing Life Habits 87
Meditation 115
Stress Reduction 145
Therapeutic Support Groups 157
III THE MIND/BODY CONNECTION
The Chemical Communicators 177
Emotions and the Immune System 195
The Brain and the Immune System 213
Conditioned Responses 239
IV THE MYSTERY OF CHI
Medicine in a Mind/Body Culture 257
Another Way of Seeing 305
V WOUNDED HEALERS
Healing 323
Wholeness 343
Index 365
Picture Credits 370