Mind-Body Unity: A New Vision for Mind-Body Science and Medicine
by Henry Dreher

Over the past 20 years, an explosion of scientific studies has established that our emotions and outlook — our state of mind — can exert a strong influence on the state of our health. In Mind-Body Unity: A New Vision for Mind-Body Science and Medicine, science writer and health consultant Henry Dreher assesses the evidence of the most up-to-date mind-body research and concludes that mind and body are not merely connected, they are unified.

In this acclaimed new book, Dreher discusses recent findings on the role of emotions, coping and personality in coronary heart disease, on psychosocial factors in cancer progression and survival, and on the social dimensions of human health in general. He also describes current mind-body approaches to the treatment of cancer and other diseases, and he explores both the resistance of mainstream medicine to this phenomenon and the many promising possibilities suggested by a deeper understanding of how mind and body are inextricably bound. (360 pages, $45, February)

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