The volume explores in depth the vast healing potential of a fundamental human gift. In addition to providing a historical perspective of the importance accorded to imagination in the disease and healing processes, the book furnishes theoretical, empirical, and clinical evidence of the efficacy of imagery in the healing of a wide variety of health problems including stress, pain, cancer, depression, phobias, skin disorders, and sexual dysfunctions.
Preface Anees A. Sheikh
Imagination in Disease and Healing Processes: A Historical Perspective Carol E. McMahon and Anees A. Sheikh
Psychophysiology of Imagery and Healing: A Systems Perspective Gary E. Schwartz
Imagery, Cerebral Laterality, and the Healing Process Robert G. Leyand Richard J. Freeman
Changing "Unchangeable" Bodily Processes by (Hypnotic) Suggestions: A New Look at Hypnosis, Cognitions, Imagining, and the Mind-Body Problem Theodore X. Barber
The Use of Imagery in Alleviating Depression K. David Schultz
Imagery and Cancer â–¡Howard Hall
Imagery and the Treatment of Phobic Disorders Beverly K. Habeck and Anees A. Sheikh
Sex, Fantasy and Imagination: Scientific Research and Clinical Applications Kenneth S. Pope, Jerome L. Singer, and Lawrence C. Rosenberg
Mind-Controlled Analgesia: The Inner Way to Pain Control David Bresler
Imagine Health! Imagery in Medical Self-Care Martin L. Rossman
Imagery, Body, and Space in Focusing Eugene T. Gendlin, Doralee Grindler, and Mary McGuire
Subject Index
Acknowledgments
Biography
Dr. Anees Sheikh teaches the Psychology of Imagination, Death and Dying, Psychology of Happiness, an undergraduate course in psychotherapy methods, and the graduate course in clinical uses of mental imagery.
