The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

by Ornstein, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781883536176
• ISBN10: 1883536170
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Ishk Book Service

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(6)
SECTION I: The Stability to Resist Disease
In Sickness and in Health	17	(18)
SECTION II: The Brain Minds the Body
Bodyguards	35	(20)
The Self-Ish Brain: Feeling Our Way Through an Unstable World	55	(18)
SECTION III: Beyond Belief
The Powerful Placebo	73	(15)
The Pharmacy Within: Beliefs, Endorphins, and the Intrinsic Pain Relief System	88	(10)
Great Expectations: On the Mental Reduction of Warts and Enlargement of Breasts	98	(7)
Small Worlds, Small Brains: Making Up Your Mind	105	(14)
SECTION IV: ``No Man Is an Island''
People Need People	119	(10)
From the Individual to the Social Body	129	(9)
Mind-Made Immunity: On Grief, Lymphocytes, and Sharks of the Mind	138	(23)
Pressure: Social and Blood	161	(12)
A Heart Apart: On Self-Centeredness, Hostility, and Sudden Death	173	(18)
Friends Can be Good Medicine	191	(14)
SECTION V: Mind-Made Health
Feeling Bored, Feeling Blitzed	205	(23)
Of Hardiness, Coherence, and Stability	228	(31)
Notes	259	(26)
For Further Reading	285	(4)
Index	289