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The volume explores in depth the vast healing potential of a fundamental human gift. In addition to providing a historical perspective of the importance accorded to imagination in the disease and healing processes, the book furnishes theoretical, empirical, and clinical evidence of the efficacy of imagery in the healing of a wide variety of health problems including stress, pain, cancer, depression, phobias, skin disorders, and sexual dysfunctions.
In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.
Imagery for Pain Relief, the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain management. Scientifically grounded and easy-to-read, it provides readers with a wealth of practical information, including imagery techniques that have been successfully used in the past. This is a useful text not only for physicians and clinical psychologists, but also for counselors, social workers, nurses, and graduate students in all health related fields, including sports medicine.
Brings together many imagery techniques from a variety of sources, for all health practitioners. Approaches are grouped in four categories of hypnobehavioral, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic/humanistic, and humanistic/transpersonal. Some techniques described include imagery- related techniques in neuro-linguistic programming, tsubo imagery psychotherapy, and transformational fantasy. An introductory chapter offers a historical overview of imagination in disease and healing processes. Sheikh teaches psychology at Marquette University and psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is past president of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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This volume surveys the various approaches to health care adopted by the major Eastern and Western philosophies, and attempts to synthesize these differing methods into a universal, practical application.
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