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Achterberg, J/ Lawlis, GF. Bridges of the Bodymind: Behavioral Approaches to Health Care, Champaign, IL: Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1980.

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Booth, R J. and Ashbridge, K. R. Is the Mind Part of the Immune System? Advances 1993, 9(2), 4-23; comments by others 24-65

Dienstfrey, Harris, Where the Mind Meets the Body, New York: HarperPerennial 1991 Excellent review and discussion of PNI

Dorian, Barbara and Garfinkel, Paul E., Stress, immunity and illness - a review, Psychological Medicine, 1987, 17, 393-407

Epstein, Gerald, Waking Dream Therapy: Dream Process as Imagination, New York: Human Sciences 1981;

Epstein, Gerald, Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery, New York/ London: Bantam 1989 Excellent discussion of imagery in therapy and self-healing

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Goleman, Daniel & Gurin, Joel Mind Body Medicine, Yonkers, NY: Consumer Reports1993   Well referenced review

Ironson, G et al. Can psychological interven-tions affect immunity and survival? Present findings and suggested targets with a focus on cancer and human immunodeficiency virus, Mind Body Medicine 1995, 5, 85-110.

LeShan, Lawrence, You Can Fight for Your Life: Emjotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer, New York: M. Evans 1977

LeShan, Lawrence, Cancer as a Turning Point, New York: E P Dutton 1989 Excellent discussions of psychological contributors to cancer and ways to deal with them

LeShan, Lawrence. You Can Fight For Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer, New York: M. Evans 1977.

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Matthews-Simonton, Stephanie. The Healing Family: The Simonton Approach for Families Facing Illness, New York: Bantam 1984.

Moyers, B. Healing and the Mind, London/New York: Doubleday 1993. Excellent discussion on body-mind connections

Pelletier, Kenneth R and Herzing, Denise L., Psychoneuro-immunology: toward a mindbody model, Advances 1988, 5(1), 27-56

Sheikh, A. A. (Ed) Imagination and Healing Farmingdale, NY: Baywood 1984  Visualisations - theoretical discussion

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Spiegel, David. Living Beyond Limits, New York: Fawcett Columbine 1993.

Spiegel, David. Mind Matters: Group Therapy and Survival in Breast Cancer, New England J of Medicine, Volume 2001, 345, 1767-1768.

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