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This influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. In Imagery in Healing, Jeanne Achterberg brings together modern scientific research and the practices of the earliest healers to support her claim that imagery is the world's oldest and most powerful healing resource. The book has become a classic in the field of alternative medici...

A practical guide to using the powers of the mind and the imagination to form rituals that can help the body restore and maintain healthWinner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award As the success of Bill Moyers's bestselling Healing and the Mind shows, the mind-body connection is widely and enthusiastically accepted. Rituals of Healing uses the mind-body connection to develop remarkable techniques for healing-which it prese...

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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.

This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers, the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages, the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the ninetee...