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Molecules of Emotion

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Candace Pert is amazing, a great and courageous scientist. Her book shows how emotions and cells work together. She presents all the scientific evidence, which can be a bit hard to comprehend. If you need hard, scientific evidence for understanding body-mind-spirit connection, Pert and Bruce Lipton are a great combo.

Back in my Med School years, I remember having outraged my colleagues by stating, with that peculiarly annoying self-righteousness of early twenties, that "all diseases are psychossomatic!". At the time, this idea came as an unstoppable intuition, with absolutely no rational or scientific argument to back it up. But now, many years later, I come to read the scientific data to support this idea - "Molecules of Emotion" should be mandatory read for every student in healthcare professions (physicians, nurses, pharmacists) and strongly recommended reading for everyone else.
Specially pertinent for those who, despite all evidence, still thing like Descartes and regard thinking and emotions as merely abstract fruitless entities, with no practical consequence in so-called "reality"...Candace Pert is a brilliant scientist and an even better human being and manages to get together an amazing book, that is equally accessible for lay public and science/health public, while at the same time being funny and entertaining, despite the deepness and wonderful complexity of most subjects she writes on.
Medicine will only be truly healing (for patients and doctors...) when it acknowledges the "New Science"/psychoneuroimmunology scientific evidence, integrates it into medical training and uses it for a paradigm shift in clinical practice...

i really enjoyed reading this book along with my pathophys class as it all ties in and reinforces what we are learning and then takes it to the next dimension,
it is applicable and makes sense, academic and personal at the same time.

It's been out a while and this has probably already been said. I'm a massage therapist and energy medicine practitioner. "Molecules" provides detailed, concise explanations of the science behind some of my work, set into a readable, interesting story. Can't do much better by me! Would love a volume by Pert on how the bioenergetic field fits into the picture (or vice versa).