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Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Personal Beliefs by Herbert, Dr. Benson, William Proctor List Price: $5.99 Our Price: $4.79 You Save: $1.20 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1994) Berkley Pub Group.

Counseling the Sick and Terminally Ill (Resources for Christian Counseling, Vol 20) by Gregg R. Albers List Price: $22.99 Our Price: $16.09 You Save: $6.90 (30%) 2-3 days Hardcover (1989) Word. Gregg Albers' book on counseling the terminally ill is part of the Resources for Christian Counseling series, a series which combines the best insights of medicine and psychology with biblical truth.

God and Evil: A Unified Theodicy/Theology/Philosophy by David Birnbaum $25.00 24 hours Hardcover (1989) Ktav Publishing House. Consistent, organized and all encompassing theodicy/theology such that this might be last book you read on this subject. Doesn't ignore other theodicies, discusses all of them while his thesis is consistent with normative Jewish belief.

Healing Lessons by Sidney J. Winawer, Nick Taylor (Contributor) List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $17.47 You Save: $7.48 (30%) 24 hours Hardcover (1998) Little Brown & Company. Dr. Sidney Winawer, chief of gastroenterology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, thought he was being paged. "Winawer. Winawer," a voice called. But it wasn't the hospital's paging system that was beckoning him; it was an intake nurse, calling to admit his wife,Andrea, for her surgery for metastatic stomach cancer. While Winawer had treated thousands of cancer patients before his wife became ill, seeing Andrea wearing a shapeless, flimsy hospital gown shocks him; how could the hospital make someone wear something that unflattering? From the invasiveness of endoscopies to the brutal side effects of chemotherapy, the treatments he administered day after day horrify him when he's forced to examine them from his new perspective. After the surgery to remove her tumor, Andrea's grim prognosis--six months to live, given that the cancer has spread to her liver--leaves him powerless and embarrassed. One of the world's preeminent cancer experts, a man who admits he entered medicine mainly for the power it provides, won't be able to save the life of his own wife. The story gains momentum when Andrea seeks out alternative medical treatments. Andrea's condition eventually worsens, we see the family alternately falling apart and coming together. The ultimate triumph of the book is Andrea's wonderfully willful spirit.

Healing Words : The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine by Larry Dossey,MD List Price: $6.50 Our Price: $5.20 You Save: $1.30 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) Harper. Physician Dossey (Medicine and Meaning, 1991, etc.) continues to probe links between medicine and spirituality in this popular study of the healing power of prayer. Prayer heals? Hardly news in the religious world, where Hebrew Bible and New Testament alike attest to prayer's medicinal effects. But for science, it's a revelation, one confirmed by dozens of laboratory experiments that Dossey cites. Prayer can help with high blood pressure, asthma, heart attacks, headaches, and anxiety; moreover, it can alter enzyme activity, blood cell growth, and the germination of seeds./TD>

I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1996) New Harbinger. Guides survivors of crime, acidents, rape, family violence, suicide, traumatic memories, depression, guilt, and sexual abuse through the process of recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Includes the new EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique. This grounbreaking work is the first book to guide readers through the healing process of recovering from PTSD one step at a time.

Managing Pain Before It Manages You by Margaret A. Caudill,MD Herbert Benson,MD List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1995) Guilford Press. Covers a variety of chronic pain conditions and approaches.

Meaning & Medicine : Lessons from a Doctor's Tales of Breakthrough and Healing by Larry Dossey, MD List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1992) Bantam Books. Dr. Larry Dossey dared to break with traditional scientific, medical thought in his previous books, Space, Time & Medicine and Recovering The Soul. Now he continues his investigation into the connection between mind, meaning, and illness through fascinating clinical stories from his many years of practice, he shows in true, almost often dramatic accounts how though and emotion do influence the body -- and can make the difference between life and death. Filled with case histories, clinical findings, and deeply inspiring personal stories.

The Power of Meditation and Prayer by Larry Dossey (Editor), Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sogyal Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Michael Toms List Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) Paperback (1997) Hay House. This compilation of essays by prominent thinkers in the New Thought field brings the power of meditation and prayer to readers.TD>

Prayer Is Good Medicine : How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer by Larry Dossey, MD List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) HarperCollins. The scientific evidence for prayer, the controversies associated with prayer experiments, what prayer is, and how to pray.

Recovering the Soul : A Scientific and Spiritual Approach by Larry Dossey, MD List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1989) Bantam Doubleday Dell. A physician and leading reformer of medicine delves into the compelling medical, scientific, and spiritual evidence for a universal consciousness and presents convincing evidence for a nonlocalized, holistic view of the mind and reality that accounts for even transcendental experiences.

The Relaxation Response by Herbert, M. D. Benson, Miriam Z. Klipper List Price: $6.99 Our Price: $5.59 You Save: $1.40 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1990) Avon. A groundbreaking book when published in 1975. Based on studies at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Herbert Benson showed that relaxation techniques such as meditation have immense physical benefits, from lowered blood pressure to a reduction in heart disease. Demystifies the mantra meditation used in the transcendental meditation program, explaining how anyone can reap its advantages with or without the help of a meditation class.

Religion and the Family : When God Helps by Laurel Arthur Burton (Editor) $19.95 2-3 days Paperback (1992) Haworth Press. Combines theory and clinical data to guide family therapists in using the spirituality or religion of individuals and families as a resource for understanding and treating family problems.

Remarkable Recovery : What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us About Getting Well and Staying Well by Marc Ian Barasch, Caryle Hirshberg List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1996) Riverhead Books. When the authors began their exploration of remarkable healings, certain facts became obvious: the medical community maintained an uneasy silence on the subject, andon those rare occasions when they did discuss these cases, they seemed admiring, but strangely lacking in simple curiosity, much less scientific methodology. They asked no questions, or none of the right questions. Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Ian Barasch attempt to ask all the right questions-about the lifestyles, attitudes, hobbies, intimate relationships, social support, and spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of the extraordinary men, women and children whose stories of miraculous healings they tell. In the process, they begin to discover those qualities that may be associated with healing, finding that intuition, determination, faith, even playing a musical instrument, may improve our chances of recovery.

Spiritual Crisis: Surviving Trauma to the Soul by J. Lebron McBride $39.95 Hardcover (April 1998) Haworth. Chapters Titles Include: The Crisis of Trauma, Relationship and Family Problems, Disillusionment with the Church, Belief Transition, Denominational Identity, Extremes, Loss, Physical Illness, Religious Burnout, Psychological Disturbance, Personal Identity, Ethics, Working with People in Crisis.

Timeless Healing : The Power and Biology of Belief by Herbert Benson List Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) Fireside. Benson pursued the relationships between medicine and belief for years before founding Harvard's Mind/Body Institute in 1988. He reports many scientific studies of this relationship, of the placebo effect, and especially of the "remembered wellness" (i.e., desire for health) effect. In the last chapters, he looks particularly at the roles that religion, faith, and spiritual experiences play in healing.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner, Bonny V. Fetterman List Price: $22.00 Our Price: $15.40 You Save: $6.60 (30%) 2-3 days Hardcover (1989) Schocken Stressing the importance of faith when random and tragic circumstances affect people without reason, a clergyman shares his ordeal with his son's terminal illness, his test of faith, and his rediscovery of man's relationship with God.

When Faith Is Tested: Pastoral Responses to Suffering and Tragic Death (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series) by Jeffry R. Zurheide, Jeffrey R. Zurheide List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $12.00 You Save: $3.00 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) Fortress

L. A. Rynasko, Board Certified Chaplain
Association of Professional Chaplains

	Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Personal Beliefs by Herbert, Dr. Benson, William Proctor List Price: $5.99 Our Price: $4.79 You Save: $1.20 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1994) Berkley Pub Group.
	Counseling the Sick and Terminally Ill (Resources for Christian Counseling, Vol 20) by Gregg R. Albers List Price: $22.99 Our Price: $16.09 You Save: $6.90 (30%) 2-3 days Hardcover (1989) Word. Gregg Albers' book on counseling the terminally ill is part of the Resources for Christian Counseling series, a series which combines the best insights of medicine and psychology with biblical truth.
	God and Evil: A Unified Theodicy/Theology/Philosophy by David Birnbaum $25.00 24 hours Hardcover (1989) Ktav Publishing House. Consistent, organized and all encompassing theodicy/theology such that this might be last book you read on this subject. Doesn't ignore other theodicies, discusses all of them while his thesis is consistent with normative Jewish belief.
	Healing Lessons by Sidney J. Winawer, Nick Taylor (Contributor) List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $17.47 You Save: $7.48 (30%) 24 hours Hardcover (1998) Little Brown & Company. Dr. Sidney Winawer, chief of gastroenterology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, thought he was being paged. "Winawer. Winawer," a voice called. But it wasn't the hospital's paging system that was beckoning him; it was an intake nurse, calling to admit his wife,Andrea, for her surgery for metastatic stomach cancer. While Winawer had treated thousands of cancer patients before his wife became ill, seeing Andrea wearing a shapeless, flimsy hospital gown shocks him; how could the hospital make someone wear something that unflattering? From the invasiveness of endoscopies to the brutal side effects of chemotherapy, the treatments he administered day after day horrify him when he's forced to examine them from his new perspective. After the surgery to remove her tumor, Andrea's grim prognosis--six months to live, given that the cancer has spread to her liver--leaves him powerless and embarrassed. One of the world's preeminent cancer experts, a man who admits he entered medicine mainly for the power it provides, won't be able to save the life of his own wife. The story gains momentum when Andrea seeks out alternative medical treatments. Andrea's condition eventually worsens, we see the family alternately falling apart and coming together. The ultimate triumph of the book is Andrea's wonderfully willful spirit.
	Healing Words : The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine by Larry Dossey,MD List Price: $6.50 Our Price: $5.20 You Save: $1.30 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) Harper. Physician Dossey (Medicine and Meaning, 1991, etc.) continues to probe links between medicine and spirituality in this popular study of the healing power of prayer. Prayer heals? Hardly news in the religious world, where Hebrew Bible and New Testament alike attest to prayer's medicinal effects. But for science, it's a revelation, one confirmed by dozens of laboratory experiments that Dossey cites. Prayer can help with high blood pressure, asthma, heart attacks, headaches, and anxiety; moreover, it can alter enzyme activity, blood cell growth, and the germination of seeds./TD>
	I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1996) New Harbinger. Guides survivors of crime, acidents, rape, family violence, suicide, traumatic memories, depression, guilt, and sexual abuse through the process of recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Includes the new EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique. This grounbreaking work is the first book to guide readers through the healing process of recovering from PTSD one step at a time.
	Managing Pain Before It Manages You by Margaret A. Caudill,MD Herbert Benson,MD List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1995) Guilford Press. Covers a variety of chronic pain conditions and approaches.
	Meaning & Medicine : Lessons from a Doctor's Tales of Breakthrough and Healing by Larry Dossey, MD List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1992) Bantam Books. Dr. Larry Dossey dared to break with traditional scientific, medical thought in his previous books, Space, Time & Medicine and Recovering The Soul. Now he continues his investigation into the connection between mind, meaning, and illness through fascinating clinical stories from his many years of practice, he shows in true, almost often dramatic accounts how though and emotion do influence the body -- and can make the difference between life and death. Filled with case histories, clinical findings, and deeply inspiring personal stories.
	The Power of Meditation and Prayer by Larry Dossey (Editor), Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sogyal Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Michael Toms List Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) Paperback (1997) Hay House. This compilation of essays by prominent thinkers in the New Thought field brings the power of meditation and prayer to readers.TD>
	Prayer Is Good Medicine : How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer by Larry Dossey, MD List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) HarperCollins. The scientific evidence for prayer, the controversies associated with prayer experiments, what prayer is, and how to pray.
	Recovering the Soul : A Scientific and Spiritual Approach by Larry Dossey, MD List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1989) Bantam Doubleday Dell. A physician and leading reformer of medicine delves into the compelling medical, scientific, and spiritual evidence for a universal consciousness and presents convincing evidence for a nonlocalized, holistic view of the mind and reality that accounts for even transcendental experiences.
	The Relaxation Response by Herbert, M. D. Benson, Miriam Z. Klipper List Price: $6.99 Our Price: $5.59 You Save: $1.40 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1990) Avon. A groundbreaking book when published in 1975. Based on studies at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Herbert Benson showed that relaxation techniques such as meditation have immense physical benefits, from lowered blood pressure to a reduction in heart disease. Demystifies the mantra meditation used in the transcendental meditation program, explaining how anyone can reap its advantages with or without the help of a meditation class.
	Religion and the Family : When God Helps by Laurel Arthur Burton (Editor) $19.95 2-3 days Paperback (1992) Haworth Press. Combines theory and clinical data to guide family therapists in using the spirituality or religion of individuals and families as a resource for understanding and treating family problems.
	Remarkable Recovery : What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us About Getting Well and Staying Well by Marc Ian Barasch, Caryle Hirshberg List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1996) Riverhead Books. When the authors began their exploration of remarkable healings, certain facts became obvious: the medical community maintained an uneasy silence on the subject, andon those rare occasions when they did discuss these cases, they seemed admiring, but strangely lacking in simple curiosity, much less scientific methodology. They asked no questions, or none of the right questions. Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Ian Barasch attempt to ask all the right questions-about the lifestyles, attitudes, hobbies, intimate relationships, social support, and spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of the extraordinary men, women and children whose stories of miraculous healings they tell. In the process, they begin to discover those qualities that may be associated with healing, finding that intuition, determination, faith, even playing a musical instrument, may improve our chances of recovery.
	Spiritual Crisis: Surviving Trauma to the Soul by J. Lebron McBride $39.95 Hardcover (April 1998) Haworth. Chapters Titles Include: The Crisis of Trauma, Relationship and Family Problems, Disillusionment with the Church, Belief Transition, Denominational Identity, Extremes, Loss, Physical Illness, Religious Burnout, Psychological Disturbance, Personal Identity, Ethics, Working with People in Crisis.
	Timeless Healing : The Power and Biology of Belief by Herbert Benson List Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) Fireside. Benson pursued the relationships between medicine and belief for years before founding Harvard's Mind/Body Institute in 1988. He reports many scientific studies of this relationship, of the placebo effect, and especially of the "remembered wellness" (i.e., desire for health) effect. In the last chapters, he looks particularly at the roles that religion, faith, and spiritual experiences play in healing.
	When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner, Bonny V. Fetterman List Price: $22.00 Our Price: $15.40 You Save: $6.60 (30%) 2-3 days Hardcover (1989) Schocken Stressing the importance of faith when random and tragic circumstances affect people without reason, a clergyman shares his ordeal with his son's terminal illness, his test of faith, and his rediscovery of man's relationship with God.
	When Faith Is Tested: Pastoral Responses to Suffering and Tragic Death (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series) by Jeffry R. Zurheide, Jeffrey R. Zurheide List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $12.00 You Save: $3.00 (20%) 24 hours Paperback (1997) Fortress