Healing Spaces

The Science of Place and Well-Being

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.

    1. Healing Places
    2. Seeing and Healing
    3. Sound and Silence
    4. Cotton Wool and Clouds of Frankincense
    5. Mazes and Labyrinths
    6. Finding Your Way...
    7. ...and Losing It
    8. Healing Thought and Healing Prayer
    9. Hormones of Hope and Healing
    10. Hospitals and Well-Being
    11. Healing Cities, Healing World
    12. Healing Gardens and My Place of Peace
    • Bibliography
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index
  • Cover: Healing Spaces
  • A photo of the author

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 was on the faculty at Washington University, St. Louis, prior to joining the National Institutes of Health in 1986.