Imagination and medicine; the future of healing in an age of neuroscience

Preface - Stephen Aizenstat. Coming to a door - Marion Woodman. The physician inside - Robert Bosnak. Origins. 1 Ancient Asklepieia: institutional incubation and the hope of healing - Kimberley C. Patton. 2 Healing the soul in a culture of fear - Machael Kearney. 3 Water spirits, multiple sclerosis, and poisoned of a god - Michael Ortiz Hill. 4 The imaginal realm of dissociation: the archetypal nature of trauma in light of quantum physics - Judith R. Harris. Science. 5 Can believing make you well? A decade later - Esther M. Sternberg. 6 The neural bases of placebo effects in pain - Lauren Y. Atlas and Tor D. Wager. 7 How the mind and the brain co-creat each other daily - Ernest Lawrence Rossi and Kathryn Lane Rossi. 8 Clinical implications of neuroscience research in PTSD - Bessel A. van der Kolk. 9 Imagination and medicine: reply to Bessel van der Kolk - Richard Kradin. Healing space. 10 Re-imagining the architecture of healing - Anthony Lawlor

'...medical scientists in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, neuroscience, and the placebo effect join with practitioners in the fields of non-Western medicine, the Asklepieia, body/soul therapies, and dream to explore the intimate relationship between imagination and physical health....these scholars, physicians, and healers offer their vision of what medical treatment and psychotherapy might look like in the future. Artists and architects with expertise in health care also describe and present new designs for healing centers that bring together current scientific knowledge and age-old healing practices....'

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