TY - BOOK AU - Sternberg,Esther M. TI - Healing spaces: the science of place and well-being SN - 0674057481 AV - RA770 .S74 2010 U1 - 725.51 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Architectural design KW - Health aspects N1 - Originally published: 2009; Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index; Healing places -- Seeing and hearing -- Sound and silence -- Cotton wool and clouds of frankincense -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Finding your way ... -- ... and losing it -- Healing thought and healing prayer -- Hormones of hope and healing -- Hospitals and well-being -- Healing cities, healing world -- Healing gardens and my place of peace N2 - Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place ER -