Could the key to future health treatments lie buried within our own brains? Can we trick our minds into healing ourselves, losing weight, or digging up distant memories? In this riveting narrative, acclaimed science journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising power of suggestibility, and how our expectations and beliefs can shape our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of research, interviews with leading experts, and international journeys to the field, this book is a fascinating adventure through the world of placebos, false memories, and hypnosis, revealing the groundbreaking science of our highly suggestible minds. From NIH's research labs to a witch doctor's office in Mexico to a traditional Chinese medicine school near Beijing, Vance embarks on a scientific, cultural, and personal journey to show how our brains can influence our well-being in ways we never imagined.
- ISBN10 1426218311
- ISBN13 9781426218316
- Publish Date 1 January 2019 (first published 8 November 2016)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Geographic Society
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English