Healing spaces : the science of place and well-being / Esther M. Sternberg.

By:

Sternberg, Esther M

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback editionDescription: 343 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674057487 (pbk.)
0674057481 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

725.51 22

LOC classification:

RA770 .S74 2010

Contents:

Healing places -- Seeing and hearing -- Sound and silence -- Cotton wool and clouds of frankincense -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Finding your way ... -- ... and losing it -- Healing thought and healing prayer -- Hormones of hope and healing -- Hospitals and well-being -- Healing cities, healing world -- Healing gardens and my place of peace.

Summary: Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.

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Originally published: 2009

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index.

Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.

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