Explore the mind’s power to heal and shape reality by examining mind-cure ideas and how they claim to influence the body.
This study traces early theories about thought, imagination, and spirit, and how these notions interact with medicine and everyday health.
Across concise chapters, the book analyzes how imagination and belief can affect well-being, and what critics say about the role of mind in healing. It presents examples and discussions that illuminate the premises behind mind-curing practices, without promising sensational results.
- Understand the concept that thought and perception may influence physical experience
- See how imagination, fear, and belief have been used to explain health and illness
- Learn how philosophers and psychologists have approached mind, matter, and reality
- Consider the practical and philosophical questions raised by early mind-healing movements
Ideal for readers interested in the history of mind-body ideas, and how the belief in healing through thought has shaped health practices and debates.