Jeanne
Achterberg, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the Institute of
Transpersonal Psychology, and has served as associate professor and director of
research in rehabilitation science at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
This influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. In Imagery in Healing, Jeanne Achterberg brings together modern scientific research and the practices of the earliest healers...
This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers;...