People have the potential to heal themselves and each other. Dr. Daniel Benor, a wholistic psychiatrist, explains how mind-body and body-mind interactions promote health or cause illness. Clear and concise explanations of a large body of research, clinical examples, and a variety of theory explain healing through complementary/alternative medicine. Dr. Benor reviews research-supporting claims that complementary/alternative therapies and bioenergy therapies are potent and effective treatments. "Daniel Benor's compilation is an excellent resource on health and healing. Every health care practitioner should read it." -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., Book jacket "The most extensive and critical analyses of healing research found in a single sourcebook, a classic in the healing field." -- Richard Gerber, M.D., Book jacket "This volume is authoritative, insightful, and comprehensive. Daniel Benor is the great chronicler of this field." -- Larry Dossey, MD, Book jacket BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD -- The Scientific and Medical Network www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/11.htm Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing is Volume 2 of the four-volume series, Healing Research. Volume 1 Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution This volume establishes that Spiritual Healing (Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki, Prayer Healing and other, similar approches) are real and potent interventions. Volume 1 provides an annotated bibliography of 191 controlled studies of healing; summarie of qualitative studies; and reviews of healers' explanations of what they do and how they do it. Volume 2, Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healng, explains self-haling and complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). This compendium is an outstanding work, in and of itself, with 137 pp of references to supplement the extensive summaries of research and clinical information that is brilliantly summarized in the text. Volume 2 also frames spiritual healing in the spectrum of self-healing and bioenergy medicine. It becomes clear that spiritual healing is a major aspect of many bioenergy interventions. Conversely, it becomes clear that self-healing is a major aspect of spiritual healing - and of every other form of CAM therapy. Volume 3 will explore the research in spiritual dimensions, also framing the effects of spiritual healing that open healers and healees into transpersonal dimensions. Volume 4 will summarize what is known in spiritual healing research, including many theories - all of which are partial explanations for how healing works. The author's personal experiences as a physician, psychiatric psychotherapist and healer are also shared in this volume. Healing Research is a baby that has been 25 years in gestation. Volume 2, PROFESSIONAL EDITION, presents detailed reviews of research in self-healing, complementary/ alternative medicine, and bieoenergy medicine. Volume 2, POPULAR EDITION, "How Can I Heal What Hurts?" presents these materials in less technical terms. It also includes a broad spectrum of self-healing methods that answer the question posed in its title. I wish you good healings in exploring these realms! Daniel J Benor, MD BOOK REVIEW C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Daniel J. Benor, M.D. Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing: Self-Healing and Energy Medicine for the 21st Century. Holistic Healing Publications, P. O. Box 502, Medford, NJ 08055. A true review of this book would take many pages. This is unequivocally the encyclopedia of evidence for self-healing, a port for holistic, complementary, and alternative medicine approaches, and a look at an overview of subtle energy, especially looking at the human energy field and environmental electromagnetic energy, cosmos-biology and even astrology. In his earlier book, Dr. Benor summarized almost as extensively as in the current book, an extensive body of research confirming claims by spiritual healers that they can "effect improvements in the health of the healees who flock to them, suffering from all the ailments known to human kind." This book in his Healing Research series continues to address the question, "How does healing work?" I have never seen a more concise but adequate definition of personality disorders, neuroses, and psychoses. The book is worthwhile just from that point of view alone. There is an adequate discussion of physical symptoms addressed by psychotherapy, as well as by bodywork and by bioenergy therapy. There is a good overview of psychological conditioning and behavioral therapy. Body/mind therapy, spiritual healing, hypnosis, biofeedback, transpersonal psychology, and even spontaneous remissions are addressed. The emphasis is very much on the fact that " The world is not all in the mind. It would be more accurate to suggest that the mind is all in the world. That is part of the world, in fact, because we are intimately involved." Lyle Watson Finally the 168 pages of references alone make this the richest single resource available to us in