Healing and the Mind

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Journalist and PBS commentator Bill Moyers traveled around the globe investigating medical treatments that rely on the power of the mind rather than on modern medicine's high-tech miracles. In this intriguing companion volume to the PBS TV series, Moyers explores the roles of thoughts and emotions in illness and health through interviews with 16 doctors and scientists. Photographs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction; Editor's Note; The Art of Healing; The Healing Roles of Doctor and Patient; The Healing Environment; Healing and the Community; Healing from Within; Self-Regulation and Conditioning; Changing Life Habits; Meditation; Stress Reduction; Therapeutic Support Groups; The Mind/Body Connection; The Chemical Communicators; Emotions and the Immune System; The Brain and the Immune System; Conditioned Responses; The Mystery of Chi; Medicine in a Mind/Body Culture; Another Way of Seeing; Wounded Healers; Healing; Wholeness; Index; Picture Credits
© Peter Krogh
Bill Moyers was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant (and press secretary) to President Lyndon Johnson from 1963 until 1967, publisher of Newsday, senior news analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television’s groundbreaking series. He is the winner of more than 30 Emmy awards and nine Peabody awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television, the Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association, and the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute. Among his bestselling books are Listening to AmericaA World of IdeasThe Power of Myth (with Joseph Campbell), and Moyers on America. He serves as the pro-bono president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. View titles by Bill Moyers

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Journalist and PBS commentator Bill Moyers traveled around the globe investigating medical treatments that rely on the power of the mind rather than on modern medicine's high-tech miracles. In this intriguing companion volume to the PBS TV series, Moyers explores the roles of thoughts and emotions in illness and health through interviews with 16 doctors and scientists. Photographs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction; Editor's Note; The Art of Healing; The Healing Roles of Doctor and Patient; The Healing Environment; Healing and the Community; Healing from Within; Self-Regulation and Conditioning; Changing Life Habits; Meditation; Stress Reduction; Therapeutic Support Groups; The Mind/Body Connection; The Chemical Communicators; Emotions and the Immune System; The Brain and the Immune System; Conditioned Responses; The Mystery of Chi; Medicine in a Mind/Body Culture; Another Way of Seeing; Wounded Healers; Healing; Wholeness; Index; Picture Credits

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© Peter Krogh
Bill Moyers was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant (and press secretary) to President Lyndon Johnson from 1963 until 1967, publisher of Newsday, senior news analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television’s groundbreaking series. He is the winner of more than 30 Emmy awards and nine Peabody awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television, the Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association, and the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute. Among his bestselling books are Listening to AmericaA World of IdeasThe Power of Myth (with Joseph Campbell), and Moyers on America. He serves as the pro-bono president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. View titles by Bill Moyers

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