Author: Blake, Robin.
Title: Mind over Medicine: Can the Mind Kill or Cure?
Description: London Pan Original / Pan Books, 1987. Paperback, good plus condition, spine little creased, edges little foxed, minor edgewear. 247 pp. Examines the slogan "it's all in the mind". Reveals the full complexity of the mind's effect on the body, for both good health and illness. He challenges the mechanistic approach of modern medicine and shows that our emotions are deeply involved in the homeostatic processes that sustain life. Along the way, he explores the variability of pain thresholds, the intelligence of the immune system, the selectiveness of infection, the cellular civil wars of cancer and auto-allergy, and many other phenomena which have baffled science. The body, he suggests, is far more than a biological machine, and doctors and patients alike would benefit from adopting a wider, more holistic view of health. ISBN: 0330295365

Keywords: self-help, psychology, health, psychoneuroimmunology (pni), psychosomatic health 0330295365


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