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Imagery in healing : shamanism and modern medicine

Title
Imagery in healing : shamanism and modern medicine / Jeanne Achterberg.
Author
Achterberg, Jeanne.
Publication
Boston : New Science Library, Shambhala ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, 1985.

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Description
viii, 253 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Combining the practices of the earliest healers with the latest data from modern medicine, this comprehensive work shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can help patients, through painful events such as childbirth and burn treatment, as well as act as a positive influence on disease states such as cancer"--
Subject
  • Medicine and psychology
  • Mind and body
  • Imagery (Psychology)
  • Medicine, Psychosomatic
  • Imagination
  • Psychology
  • Imagination
  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Imagery, Psychotherapy
  • imagery
  • imagination
  • psychology
  • Medicine and psychology
  • Medicine, Psychosomatic
  • Mind and body
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [231]-246.
Contents
The shaman : master healer of the imaginary realms -- The golden thread : imagery and the history of medicine -- The shaman and the scientist : uses of imagery in modern medicine -- Science and the imagination : physiology and biochemistry -- Behavioral and social science : imagination as psychotherapy -- Immune odyssey : mind and disease.
ISBN
  • 0877733074
  • 9780877733072
  • 0394730313
  • 9780394730318
LCCN
84020748
OCLC
  • ocm11236209
  • 11236209
  • SCSB-1152234
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library