自愈力的真相 – Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo Marchant

通过虚拟现实技术，可以使病人减轻痛苦？

明知道只是安慰剂，病人服下后仍能缓解病情？

让登山者以为自己在吸氧，就可以缓解高原反应？

这些都是大脑自愈力影响身体的显著表现，人体是一个整体，躯体各脏器之间、精神心理和躯体之间，都有千丝万缕的关系。大脑自愈力还有多少我们不知道的潜力，通过应用大脑的力量，是否可以影响身体健康？

备受赞誉的科学记者乔·马钱特走访了哈佛大学、牛津大学、剑桥大学、多伦多大学近30所世界名校，采访了包括诺贝尔奖得主在内20多个领域的世界专家，搜寻了医学领域世界各地的前沿研究，以科学数据和事实为依据，揭示了人的大脑对身体健康的影响，阐述了当下被广泛应用的10大自愈手段的理论依据，以及如何将这些前沿发现融入日常生活和临床实践中，在对传统医疗提出了质疑的同时，也给出了新医疗思维的丰富实证。

对于医生来说，《自愈力的真相》指出了在对待病人的时候，既要理性看待科学证据和客观检查结果，也要重视个体情感和心理对身体造成的影响。同时对于普通患者来说，这也是一本生动的医学科普图书，尤其是深受慢性病、重疾、身体损伤、疼痛等困扰的人，可以学习科学方法，充分调动自己内在的治愈力，获得健康丰富的人生！

A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind’s surprising ability to heal the body

Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner’s voice? If so, then you’ve experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your body.

Yet while we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of “healing thoughts” was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual healers. Recently, however, serious scientists from a range of fields have been uncovering evidence that our thoughts, emotions and beliefs can ease pain, heal wounds, fend off infection and heart disease and even slow the progression of AIDS and some cancers.

In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients and researchers on the cutting edge of this new world of medicine. We learn how meditation protects against depression and dementia, how social connections increase life expectancy and how patients who feel cared for recover from surgery faster. We meet Iraq war veterans who are using a virtual arctic world to treat their burns and children whose ADHD is kept under control with half the normal dose of medication. We watch as a transplant patient uses the smell of lavender to calm his hostile immune system and an Olympic runner shaves vital seconds off his time through mind-power alone.

Drawing on the very latest research, Marchant explores the vast potential of the mind’s ability to heal, lays out its limitations and explains how we can make use of the findings in our own lives. With clarity and compassion, Cure points the way towards a system of medicine that treats us not simply as bodies but as human beings. 

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