Healing and the Mind

At last the paperback edition of the monumental&#160;&#160;best-seller (almost half a million copies in&#160;&#160;print!) that has changed the way Americans think about&#160;&#160;sickness and health -- the companion volume to the&#160;&#160;landmark PBS series of the same name. In a&#160;&#160;remarkably short period of time Bill Moyers's&#160;&#160;<i>Healing And The Mind</i> has become a&#160;&#160;touchstone shaping the debate over alternative medical&#160;&#160;treatments and the role of the mind in illness and&#160;&#160;recovery in a way that few books have in recent&#160;&#160;memory. With almost half a million copies in print&#160;&#160;it is already a classic -- the most widely read&#160;&#160;and influential book of its kind. In a series of&#160;&#160;fascinating interviews with world-renowned experts&#160;&#160;and laypeople alike Bill Moyers explores the new&#160;&#160;mind/body medicine. <i>Healing And The&#160;&#160;Mind</i> shows how it is being practiced in the&#160;&#160;treatment of stress chronic disease and neonatal&#160;&#160;problems in several American hospitals; examines the&#160;&#160;chemical basis of emotions and their potential&#160;&#160;for making us sick (and making us well); explores&#160;&#160;the fusion of traditional Chinese medicine with&#160;&#160;modern Western practices in contemporary China; and&#160;&#160;takes an up-close personal look at alternative&#160;&#160;healing therapies including a Massachusetts center&#160;&#160;that combines Eastern meditation and Western group&#160;&#160;therapy and a California retreat for cancer&#160;&#160;patients who help each other even when a cure is&#160;&#160;impossible. Combining the incisive yet personal interview&#160;&#160;approach that made <i>A World Of Ideas</i>&#160;&#160;a feast for the mind and the provocative interplay&#160;&#160;of text and art that made <i>The Power Of&#160;&#160;Myth</i> a feast for the imagination&#160;&#160;<i>Healing And The Mind</i> is a landmark work.