Healing and the Mind

<p>At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health &mdash; the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name. In a remarkably short period of time, Bill Moyers' <em>Healing And The Mind</em> 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.</p> <p>With almost half a million copies in print, it is already a classic &mdash; 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. <em>Healing And The Mind</em> 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.</p> <p>Combining the incisive yet personal interview approach that made A World Of Ideas a feast for the mind and the provocative interplay of text and art that made <em>The Power Of Myth</em> a feast for the imagination, Healing And The Mind is a landmark work.</p>