Doubleday 1993. Half cloth, 370 pp.
In a remarkably short period
of time, Bill Moyers's Healing And The Mind
has become a touchstone, shaping the debate over alternative
medical treatments and the role of the mind in illness and recovery in
a way that few books have in recent memory. With almost half a million
copies in print, it is already a classic -- the most widely read and
influential book of its kind. In a series of fascinating interviews
with world-renowned experts and laypeople alike, Bill Moyers explores
the new mind/body medicine. Healing And The Mind
shows how it is being practiced in the treatment of stress, chronic
disease, and neonatal problems in several American hospitals; examines
the chemical basis of emotions, and their potential for making us sick
(and making us well); explores the fusion of traditional Chinese
medicine with modern Western practices in contemporary China;
and takes an up-close, personal look at alternative healing therapies,
including a Massachusetts center that combines Eastern meditation and
Western group therapy, and a California retreat for cancer patients
who help each other even when a cure is impossible. Healing And The Mind is a landmark work.