Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine

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The new edition of this influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive effect on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. Jeanne Achterberg brings together modern scientific research and practices of the earliest healers to support her claim that imagery is the world's oldest and most powerful healing resource.

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"A real landmark in holistic medical studies. For those of usand there are more of us all the timewho think it is time to take responsibility for ourselves and our well-being, this is exciting stuff."Frena Bloomfield, San Francisco Chronicle Review



"I would encourage both laypersons and professionals to read Imagery in Healing to understand how one's belief can physiologically affect the human body."Charles P. Ledergerber, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association

Author Bio

Jeanne Achterberg, PhD, (1942-2012) was a professor of psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University) and served as associate professor and director of research in rehabilitation science at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.