Imagery in Healing : Shamanism and Modern Medicine

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3(8) The Shaman: Master Healer of the Imaginary Realms 11(42) The Golden Thread: Imagery and the History of Medicine 53(22) The Shaman and the Scientist: Uses of Imagery in Modern Medicine 75(38) Science and the Imagination: Physiology and Biochemistry 113(30) Behavioral and Social Science: Imagination as Psychotherapy 143(18) Immune Odyssey: Mind and Disease 161(42) Appendixes 203(16) Notes 219(12) Bibliography 231(16) Index 247