Books on Healing
The historical ASPR catalogue’s healing book list. Original descriptions are preserved as a record of the former catalogue.
Preserved text
Books
Healing and Complimentary Medicine
Imagery of Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
Jeanne Achterberg
Woman as a Healer
Jeanne Achterberg
The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
Robert O. Becker, M.D.
Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise of Electromedicine
Robert O. Becker, M.D.
Healing Words
Larry Dossey, M.D.
Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual
Larry Dossey, M.D.
Space, Time & Medicine
Larry Dossey, M.D.
Spiritual Dimensions of Healing: From Native Shamanism to Contemporary Health Care
(with cassette: Healing Images)
Stanley Krippner & Patrick Welch
Cancer as a Turning Point
Lawrence LeShan
Health and Healing
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Spontaneous Healing
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Imagery of Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
Jeanne Achterberg
Combines the practices of early healers with the latest data from modern medicine; explores the positive impact of the mind on disease and the maintenance of good health.
254 pp., pbk., 1985, Shambhala
Woman as a Healer
Jeanne Achterberg
Draws on history, anthropology, archaeology and the behavioral sciences to examine the role of women in the healing arts.
241 pp., pbk., 1991, Shambhala
The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
Robert O. Becker, M.D.
Details Dr. Becker's work in the field of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in the body; explores the healing process, evolution, psychic phenomena, cancer treatment.
365 pp., pbk., 1985, William Morrow
Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise of Electromedicine
Robert O. Becker, M.D.
Discusses the effectiveness of alternative healing methods: hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, etc.; also, how our bodies are being adversely affected by man-made electromagnetic fields (power lines, computers, microwaves).
352 pp., pbk., 1990, Jeremy Tarcher
Healing Words
Larry Dossey, M.D.
A scientific investigation of the ability of prayer to effect the healing process. Drawn from the extensive research and observations of a foremost authority on the interface between orthodox and alternative medicine.
291 pp., pbk., 1993, Harper Collins
Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual
Larry Dossey, M.D.
Alternative concepts of human consciousness; drawing from the ideas of Schrodinger, Einstein, Lao Tzu, Jung, etc., Dossey shows convincing evidence for a holistic view of mind and reality.
329 pp., pbk., 1989, Bantam
Space, Time & Medicine
Larry Dossey, M.D.
From the foreword by Fritjof Capra: "...presents compelling evidence for the conceptual crisis of current medical science and points to directions for change."
264pp., pbk., 1982, Shambhala
Spiritual Dimensions of Healing:
From Native Shamanism to Contemporary Health Care
(with cassette: Healing Images)
Stanley Krippner & Patrick Welch
Dr. Krippner's book on healing, with an emphasis on Native American healers and shamans; includes sections on curanderismo, espiritismo, and a companion 90 minute cassette tape focusing on two shamanic healers: Graywolf and Nicky Scully.
293 pp., cloth, 1992, Irvington Press
Cancer as a Turning Point
Lawrence LeShan
"A handbook for people with cancer, their families, and health professionals." Dr. LeShan draws on 35 years of experience with patients; advice and common sense about cancer treatment centered on the mental healing process.
219 pp., cloth, 1989, E.P. Dutton
Health and Healing
Andrew Weil, M.D.
A groundbreaking handbook for people who want to understand the strengths and weaknesses of conventional and alternative medicine.
296 pp., pbk., Houghton Mifflin
Spontaneous Healing
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Spontaneous healing is not a miracle or a lucky exception, but a fact of biology, the result of the natural healing system that each one of us is born with. This simple, but profoundly revolutionary, concept is the basis for brilliant book.
309 pp., pbk., Fawcett Columbine
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