MindBody Medicine: Foundations and Practical Applications

MindBody Medicineencapsulates a variety of interventions designed to change, strengthen, or enhance a patient's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to promote improved health and wellness. There has been a growing trend among professionals in the health care fields to better understand the mind-body connection. How do the body and mind interact and, more specifically, how can we use the energy of the mind to heal the body? Leo Rotan and Veronika Ospina-Kammerer have sifted through already existing works on this topic and compiled a comprehensive overview of this expanding field of study. As a result, MindBody Medicineprovides students and practitioners in a range of health care professions with a guide to more fully understand the relationship between body and mind.

Leo W. Rotan is Associate Director for Behavioral Medicine at the Tallahassee Family Practice Residency Program and Associate Professor at the Florida State University School of Medicine.