HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
* Brown, C. (1995). Deepak Chopra has a cold. Esquire, 124(4), 118-135.
This article looks at the man and the teachings of New Age Guru, Deepak Chopra. In his discussion of health and human behavior, Chopra explains that health is "a higher state of awareness," and that it is mind that produces matter rather than the other way around. Sickness---such as the cold which Deepak Chopra was suffering from during the interview for the magazine---is characterized by him as arising from self-pity. The psychological application of Chopra's teachings is that the mind can be used to heal the body because it is the mind that is producing the illness in the body.
*Brown, C. (1996). They laughed at Galileo too. The New York Times Magazine, August 11, 40-45.
This article examines parapsychology as a field of scientific inquiry through an examination of the views of Dean Radin, the director of the Consciousness Research Lab at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Tensions and hostilities between parapsychologists and more mainstream scientists (e.g., physicists, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, medical researchers, and so forth) are explored.
A number of related topics are also discussed including: the efficacy of meta-analysis for psi research, the military's use of remote viewing techniques, and the general difficulty of introducing a new paradigm into the traditional model that equates individuals with their bodily structures and processes.
* Carpi, J. (1996). Science does it with feeling. The Economist, 340(7975), 71-78.
This article makes the point that the increased use of cognitive-behavioral interventions for healing physical illnesses such as cancer or other life-threatening diseases has renewed health providers' interest in the long-standing philosophical problem of the relatedness (or lack thereof) of the mind and the body.
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