* Healing Places * Seeing and Healing * 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 * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index
Most of us explain what other people do in terms of their individual abilities, motives, and personality traits, even when their behavior is due primarily to situational forces. This important and beautifully written book shows that contemporary medicine has made the same fundamental error about healing, and shows how powerful situations and spaces can be in moving people from illness to health. -- John Cacioppo, author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection This engaging book--conversational in tone, informative in content--is full of insight on collective healing and well-being. Esther Sternberg reveals the power of both natural places and architecture to elevate and enrich human experience and health. Enjoy it, and benefit from reading it! -- Norman L. Koonce, former CEO, American Institute of Architects A vividly written book about a humanly important issue: the ways in which the spaces we literally inhabit--whether they be hospital rooms or spacious outdoor vistas--are not just backdrops to our dramas of health and illness, but actually have an impact on the outcomes of those dramas. Mixing accessible science with elegant "you are there" journeys of exploration, Sternberg has written a book that pushes the boundary of mind-body science in ways that patients and their caregivers alike will appreciate. -- Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine Esther Sternberg is a rare writer--a physician who healed herself by going back to ancient truths known by the Greeks, and proving them. With her scientific expertise and crystal clear prose, she illuminates how intimately the brain and the immune system talk to each other, and how we can use place and space, sunlight and music, to reboot our brains and move from illness to health. -- Gail Sheehy, author of Passages
Esther M. Sternberg, M.D., author of The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, has done extensive research on brain–immune interactions and the effects of the brain’s stress response on health. She is Research Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Healing Spaces [is] an exploration of environmental influences over
the brain, the body and the course of mental and physical disease…
Anyone who has ever felt peace descend in lovely surroundings will
find a few seeds of explanation in her book.
*New York Times*
In this fascinating book, physician Esther M. Sternberg explores
the intersection of architecture and medicine; the studies and
conferences (primarily through the Academy of Neuroscience for
Architecture) and vast body of literature that reveals the extent
to which our external environment plays a role in
healing…Sternberg's findings are fascinating, some strange, some
pure common sense—thought-provoking for both individuals and
institutions.
*Los Angeles Times*
After this fascinating, engaging, and challenging read I'll think
about the heath consequences of where I am in a different way.
*The Lancet*
What Sternberg does so skillfully is to stitch together an
explanation as to how so many of the things we intuitively find
relaxing, like yoga, or sitting by the sea, or in a bright airy
room, affect how quickly we heal. She provides the science to back
it up and explains it so engagingly that it's hard to resist
sharing her conviction.
*New Scientist*
Sternberg offers a fascinating study of the complex relationships
between health and 'healing places.' …She makes the work of many
pioneers in brain and behavioral research accessible to laypersons
even as they rub elbows with such figures as Walt Disney, Frank
Gehry, and the Dalai Lama… This is a fine, thoughtful volume.
*Choice*
Even the ancients understood that some places had healing powers.
But in the late 20th century, scientists began to study how space
affects both mental and physical health for good and ill. NIH
researcher Sternberg thoroughly chronicles research on the neural
pathways that connect our sensory perception of our environment
with our ability to heal… The conclusions—e.g., that noise induces
stress, which can impede healing—seem intuitive and well known, but
readers interested in neuroscience will learn much about the
research on why this is the case.
*Publishers Weekly*
Most of us explain what other people do in terms of their
individual abilities, motives, and personality traits, even when
their behavior is due primarily to situational forces. This
important and beautifully written book shows that contemporary
medicine has made the same fundamental error about healing, and
shows how powerful situations and spaces can be in moving people
from illness to health.
*John Cacioppo, author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need
for Social Connection*
A vividly written book about a humanly important issue: the ways in
which the spaces we literally inhabit—whether they be hospital
rooms or spacious outdoor vistas—are not just backdrops to our
dramas of health and illness, but actually have an impact on the
outcomes of those dramas. Mixing accessible science with elegant
'you are there' journeys of exploration, Sternberg has written a
book that pushes the boundary of mind-body science in ways that
patients and their caregivers alike will appreciate.
*Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within: A History of
Mind–Body Medicine*
This engaging book—conversational in tone, informative in
content—is full of insight on collective healing and well-being.
Esther Sternberg reveals the power of both natural places and
architecture to elevate and enrich human experience and health.
Enjoy it, and benefit from reading it!
*Norman L. Koonce, former CEO, American Institute of
Architects*
Esther Sternberg is a rare writer—a physician who healed herself by
going back to ancient truths known by the Greeks, and proving them.
With her scientific expertise and crystal clear prose, she
illuminates how intimately the brain and the immune system talk to
each other, and how we can use place and space, sunlight and music,
to reboot our brains and move from illness to health.
*Gail Sheehy, author of Passages*
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