Suggestible you : the curious science of your brain's ability to deceive, transform, and heal / Erik Vance.

By:

Vance, Erik [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1426217897
9781426217890

Other title:

Curious science of your brain's ability to deceive, transform, and heal

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DDC classification:

153 23

LOC classification:

BF1156.S8 V36 2016

Contents:

Introduction: What Do You Expect? -- Part One: Inside the placebo effect -- 1. Placebos, storytelling, and the birth of modern medicine -- 2. Meet your inner pharmacist -- 3. Hunting the mysterious placebo responder -- Part Two: Your mind's parlor tricks -- 4. The dark side of suggestion -- 5. You are getting sleepy... -- 6. Satan worshippers, aliens, and other memories of things that never happened -- Part Three: Suggestible us -- 7. Sex, drugs, and... -- 8. Harnessing the power of expectation -- Appendix: Hypnotic Induction Script -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- About the author.

Summary: "Award-winning science writer Erik Vance plumbs the depths of our mind-body relationship in Suggestable You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal, investigating what our brains can lead our bodies to achieve and considering the implications of that power." --Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	South Campus South Campus Main Collection	153 VAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A554890B

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"Award-winning science writer Erik Vance plumbs the depths of our mind-body relationship in Suggestable You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal, investigating what our brains can lead our bodies to achieve and considering the implications of that power." --Publisher's website.

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