Doctors have known for centuries about placebo healing, and healers have long recognized that simple faith can cause healing miracles. In this inspired study of the unacknowledged power of the placebo, Lolette Kuby, Ph.D. argues that the common denominator across all forms of treatment for illness is an innate self-healing capacity that medicine calls the placebo effect, and which religion knows as faith-healing.
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... clear, compelling, and insightful. -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine
A brilliant book which will alter forever the way you look at illness and wellness, indeed life itself. -- David S. Alexander, author of Spiritual Abundance
This book is a brilliant and important guide to encourage us to accept full responsibility for our thoughts. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Conscious Evolution
A brilliant book which will alter forever the way you look at illness and wellness, indeed life itself. -- David S. Alexander, author of Spiritual Abundance
This book is a brilliant and important guide to encourage us to accept full responsibility for our thoughts. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Conscious Evolution
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In this ground-breaking book, author Lolette Kuby -- poet, cultural critic, and activist -- raises a prophetic voice against the madness of conventional medicine, offering a radical and passionate argument for self-healing through faith, based on the unacknowledged power of the placebo effect.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Stunningly Powerful Read!,
By Jennifer (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Faith and the Placebo Effect An Argument for Self Healing (Hardcover)
I read this book with a bit of skepticism about the topic but it didn't take me long to be convinced that you definitely have the power to heal yourself.Dr. Kuby cured herself of breast cancer and lived with the lump for 8 years with absolutely no pain or problems. Her book is an encouraging and well-written account of the power we all possess to heal ourselves. It is one of the best books on the market for those interested in medicine and health. I have yet to find a book to compare it to with regard to dispelling the myth of Doctor as G-D. The most enduring quote from the book, regarding the Hippocratic Oath, was "First, do no harm" which encapsulates the ideology behind this most wonderful book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A Fascinating View of Medicine,
This review is from: Faith and the Placebo Effect An Argument for Self Healing (Hardcover)
I was skeptical at first, but Lolette Kuby is a powerful writer, so once I started reading this book I had to continue to the end. I read it for the enjoyment of reading, but have to admit that Kuby's arguments are compelling enough to have significantly changed my views of health, healing, and life.I'm not a total convert. For example, as a type-1 diabetic, I'll continue to take insulin. Perhaps if I had grown up with Kuby's insights I could have avoided this medical condition in the first place, but now I don't feel that I have the power to deal with it without the help of conventional doctors. Yet I have found that positive mental attitudes toward other conditions--arthritis, anemia, and minor issues such as athlete's foot--have helped far more than any expensive prescription medication. I tell my friends to read this book for enjoyment. This author will keep you turning the pages. At the very least, you'll have a good read. But it's also possible that you'll have a major life-changing experience.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Challenging, informative, and highly recommended,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Faith and the Placebo Effect An Argument for Self Healing (Hardcover)
In Faith And The Placebo Effect: An Argument For Self-Healing, poet, cultural critic, activist, and one-time professor of literature Lolette Kuby raises a prophetic voice of protest against the narrowness of conventional medicine and in support of the power of faith in the "placebo response". Kuby writes with the authority and power of her own first hand experience with breast cancer of a spectacular placebo healing, and offers a well sustained and articulate argument for self-healing through the mind alone. Kuby shows that the placebo effect is a common denominator across all treatments for illness which triggers an innate, mind-based, self-healing capacity. She clear demonstrates how readers can consciously trigger the placebo effect, through direct faith in the inner source of all healing. Faith And The Placebo Effect is challenging, informative, and highly recommended reading for students of alternative medicine and the psychology of healing.
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