The Cure Within
A History of Mind-Body Medicine
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Narrated by:
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Christina Traister
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By:
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Anne Harrington
About this listen
"A splendid history of mind-body medicine...a book that desperately needed to be written." --Jerome Groopman, New York Times
Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.
But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories, allowing us to make new sense of our suffering and to rationalize new treatments and lifestyles.
©2008 by Anne Harrington. "Miss Gee" by W. H. Auden, from Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson. © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W.H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. "Adelaide's Lament" by Frank Loesser, from Guys and Dolls. © 1950. Renewed Frank Music Corp. All rights reserved. "Personal Stress Assessment" by Robert Sward, from Four Incarnations: New & Selected Poems, 1957-1991, Coffee House Press, 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.