Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health (Imagery and Human Development Series) - Softcover

Sheikh, Anees Ahmad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895032260 ISBN 13: 9780895032263

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

"Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health" details the function and capacity of imagination in health. This work consists of 22 chapters and discusses theory, research, and clinical applications. Presented is a brief history of the use of imagery for healing in both Eastern and Western traditions, a review of research that deals with the physiological consequences of imagery and related approaches, and an explanation of how images lead to such bodily changes. "Healing Images" covers the latest theory and research on the relationship between imagery, cerebral laterality, and healing. An attempt is also made to integrate modern systems theory with concepts of information and energy, which disclose the role of imagery and love in health. Imagery and music in health are also discussed.

About this title

From the Publisher

Intended Audience: Psychology faculty, graduate and senior undergraduate psychology students, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, pastoral counselors, marriage and family counselors, alcohol and drug therapists, anthropologists, educated lay people.

From the Inside Flap

"Healing Images may prove to be the bible in the role of imagination in health. Dr. Anees Sheikh helped invent this field, and he remains one of the foremost authorities in the world. All interested in how mind and body interact should acquaint themselves with this important work."
Larry Dossey, M.D., Author: Healing Beyond the Body and Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

"This is an exceptional book for health professionals who are seriously interested in adding imagery to their therapeutic repertoire."
Joan Boryserko, Ph.D., Author: Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and Inner Peace for Busy People: 52 Simple Strategies for Transforming Your Life

"Healing Images draws together the most rigorous and scholarly available research to document the healing power of imagination. With consummate skill, Dr. Sheikh separates the wishful from the evidence-based and offers us a scientifically impeccable and deeply poetic invitation to reown our innate power. A must read for all who hope to heal themselves and others."
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., Author: Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings

"Healing Images is a treasure house of valuable insights and practical information?a superb contribution."
Sohan L. Sharma, Ph.D., Author: The Therapeutic Dialogue and The Medical Model of Mental Illness

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0895032260
• ISBN 13: 9780895032263
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544