Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing

by Lolette Kuby

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking book, author Lolette Kuby - poet, cultural critic, and activist - raises a prophetic voice against the madness of conventional medicine, offering a radical and passionate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579830056
• ISBN13: 9781579830052
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Origin Press (CA)
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

THE BEST BOOK I EVER READ

This is truly a fascinating, life changing book. If you are willing to change your beliefs, this book will alter forever the way you view health and your innate capacity to heal yourself. Faith in the procedure,from shamanism to high-tech treatments, brings about healing. Bye bye dogmas and rivalries for the best methods of treating disease. Your health is in your mind.This is revolutionary.

Stunningly Powerful Read!

I read this book with a bit of skepticism about the topic but it didn't take me long to be convinced that you definitely have the power to heal yourself.Dr. Kuby cured herself of breast cancer and lived with the lump for 8 years with absolutely no pain or problems.Her book is an encouraging and well-written account of the power we all possess to heal ourselves.It is one of the best books on the market for those interested in medicine and health.I have yet to find a book to compare it to with regard to dispelling the myth of Doctor as G-D. The most enduring quote from the book, regarding the Hippocratic Oath, was "First, do no harm" which encapsulates the ideology behind this most wonderful book.

A Fascinating View of Medicine

I was skeptical at first, but Lolette Kuby is a powerful writer, so once I started reading this book I had to continue to the end. I read it for the enjoyment of reading, but have to admit that Kuby's arguments are compelling enough to have significantly changed my views of health, healing, and life.I'm not a total convert. For example, as a type-1 diabetic, I'll continue to take insulin. Perhaps if I had grown up with Kuby's insights I could have avoided this medical condition in the first place, but now I don't feel that I have the power to deal with it without the help of conventional doctors. Yet I have found that positive mental attitudes toward other conditions--arthritis, anemia, and minor issues such as athlete's foot--have helped far more than any expensive prescription medication.I tell my friends to read this book for enjoyment. This author will keep you turning the pages. At the very least, you'll have a good read. But it's also possible that you'll have a major life-changing experience.

Kuby's excellent book

FAITH AND THE PLACEBO EFFECT is an enormously fine book. Lolette Kuby¹s point of view‹that we all have the capacity to heal ourselves--comes from her own personal experience. Dr. Kuby shares her story openly with the reader, and her lived experience enlarges and validates her thesis‹that it is our faith in our own capacity to heal ourselves, our trust in a given remedy or support (divine or not), that can and will save us. Lolette Kuby has done prodigious research. The information she provides about the history and tradition of medicine and pharmacology is clear, coherent, and extremely readable. In another writer¹s hands, the material might be pedantic. It is not. She weaves her own life experience into the book in a way that makes it deep and rich and spiritually nourishing.

Challenging, informative, and highly recommended

In Faith And The Placebo Effect: An Argument For Self-Healing, poet, cultural critic, activist, and one-time professor of literature Lolette Kuby raises a prophetic voice of protest against the narrowness of conventional medicine and in support of the power of faith in the "placebo response". Kuby writes with the authority and power of her own first hand experience with breast cancer of a spectacular placebo healing, and offers a well sustained and articulate argument for self-healing through the mind alone. Kuby shows that the placebo effect is a common denominator across all treatments for illness which triggers an innate, mind-based, self-healing capacity. She clear demonstrates how readers can consciously trigger the placebo effect, through direct faith in the inner source of all healing. Faith And The Placebo Effect is challenging, informative, and highly recommended reading for students of alternative medicine and the psychology of healing.