The power of suggestion. How our mind affects the body. Science and fiction

Is it possible to overcome the disease with your mind? This question only seems simple. It is well known that the theme "healing mind" firmly saddled gurus, healers and other shamans; logically, owing to one this fact serious scientists can not lenient towards "alternative medicine".
But here's the paradox: it is a serious scientists, prominent representatives of many areas of science, it is experimentally proved that an idea, an emotion, faith is able to bring the most that neither is real healthy benefits: relieve symptoms of the disease, boost immunity, reduce the risk of severe disease.
This book is a fascinating guide to the broad field of ideas, from hypnosis to meditation, from placebos to positive visualization. Based on the results of the latest research, Joe Marchant purifies these ideas from pseudoscientific chaff and introduces the reader to based on them methods of self-healing that really work.