Healing Words :

The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
by Larry Dossey

Paperback, 291 pages
Published by Harper San Francisco
Publication date: February 1, 1995
ISBN: 0062502522

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Table of Contents:

Part One: Understanding Prayer and Healing

1. Saints and Sinners, Health and Illness

2. The Reach of the Mind: Setting the Stage for Prayer

Part Two: Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Prayer

3. Prayer and the Unconscious Mind

4. Where Do Prayers Go?

5. How to Pray and What to Pray For

6. Love and Healing

7. Time-Displaced Prayere: When Prayers Are Answered Before They Are Made

8. Your Doctor's Beliefs and Why They Matter

9. When Prayer Hurts: An Inquiry into "Black Prayer"

Part Three: The Evidence

10. God in the Laboratory

11. Prayer and Healing: Reviewing the Research

12. What Is Healing?

Appendix 1. Controlled Experimental Trials of Healing

Appendix 2. Spontaneous Regression of Cancer

Appendix 3. How Good is the Evidence? Prayer, Meditation, and Parapsychology

Appendix 4. Healing and the Mind: A Summing Up

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