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Humor and Healing: The Mind-Bo

Date Submitted: 09/04/2002 16:34:49
Length: 7 pages (1877 words)
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Humor and Healing: The Mind-Body Connection "As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body; so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul."—Socrates(Cousins, 56) The word, to heal, comes from the root word "haelen" which means to make whole. Bringing together the body, mind and spirit can be healing. The word humor itself is a word of many meanings. The root …

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…W. Norton & Company Inc., New York, 1979. Pages 39-150. Dienstfrey, Harris. Where the Mind Meets the Body, HarperCollins, New York, 1991. Pages 71-90. Dreher, Henry. The Immune Power Personality, Penguin Group, New York, 1995. Pages 7-45. Moyers, Bill. Healing and the Mind, Bantam Doubleday, New York, 1979, Pages 213-237. Ornstein, Robert and Sobel, David. The Healing Brain, Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987. Pages 138-160. Ornstein, Robert and Swencionis, Charles. The Healing Brain, a Scientific Reader, Guilford Press, New York, 1990. Pages 147-158

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