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

By: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Mental Health
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RA770 .S74 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001160604

Originally published: 2009

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

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.

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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