Mind as healer, mind as slayer: Mindbody medicine comes of age

Advances in Mind-Body Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 4-15

  Pelletier, Kenneth R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AUTOGENIC TRAINING; BIOMEDICINE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLERA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TOXICITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEADACHE; HEALING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPNOSIS; INFECTION; INSOMNIA; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; MIGRAINE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SANITATION; SELF CARE; SMALLPOX; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; YOGA;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALING; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036769420     PISSN: 07419783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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