Dossey, Larry, 1940-
New York : Bantam, 1992, ©1991.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
- Introduction: Talking out the worms — The asthmatic and the intern: when shame is fatal — Caught in the act: forbidden play and cardiac arrest — The siege of shame: the multiple personality disorder — Halloween and helplessness: to mean nothing is to die — Voodoo death: the no exit syndrome — Black Monday syndrome: when dread means dead –Johnny can’t read, Johnny has heart disease: education, isolation, and health — The patient patient: the hazards of the medical experience –Getting ahead and getting cancer: the problems of being a medical student — Broken hearts: the toxicity of bereavement — Meaning links mind and matter: the theory of physicist David Bohm — The body as machine — The body as music.
- The case of the fishskin boy: genes and memes — The power of belief: psychic healing and the Harvard health service — The helper’s high: healing the self by helping others — Healing at a distance: Era III medicine — The place of emptiness: the return of miracles — Standing in the void: paradoxical and rational healing — The secret helper: the invisible power within — The hospital experience: how to be a survivor — Pictures in the mind: using the imagination for healing.
Subjects:
- Internal medicine — Case studies.
- Mind and body.
- Medicine, Psychosomatic — Case studies.
- Mental Healing.
- Psychophysiology.
- Attitude to Health.
- Internal Medicine.
- Psychophysiologic Disorders — Case Reports.
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