PERSUASION AND HEALING

Schocken, New York, 1972, Revised Edition, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-8052-0470-9.  Trade soft cover, 378 pages including Bibliography and Index.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, slight curl to front wrap; light soil spotting on top edge.  Binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; black & white chart illustrations.  ‘”This revised edition of a classic is required reading for all those involved with mental illness and will be of interest to many others. … The topics dealt with include the conceptual framework of psychotherapy, non-medical healing, religious revivalism and thought reform, experimental studies of persuasion, the placebo effect, individual and group psychotherapy, and the therapeutic community.” – The British Journal of Psychiatry’ (from rear wrap)