Persuasion and Healing / A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy: Third Edition 

 - 3rd 
 -  The John Hopkins University Press,  1991 
 - 348 
<br/><br/> This popular study of ''psychological healing'' treats topics ranging from religious revivalism and magical healing to contemporary psychotherapies, from the role of the shaman in nonindustrial societies to the traditional mental hospital.  Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Psychotherapy in America Today, A Conceptual Framework for Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and the Transformation of Meanings, Religious Revivalism and Cults, Religion Magical Healing, Mind and Body in Psychotherapy, The Placebo Response and the Role of Expectations in Medical and Psychological Treatment, The Psychotherapist and the Patient, Evocative Individual Psychotherapies, Directive Individual Psychotherapies, Psychotherapy in a Controlled Environment, Epilogue: Some Personal Reflections on the Intellectual History of this Book, References, Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>801846366