The Cure Within Quotes

“He agreed to look into their claims, but on the condition that all the studies were done in the evening, and that the students came to the laboratory through a back door so that none of his colleagues would see them.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“For Spiegel himself, all these developments meant something different: that he was suddenly forced to keep company with alternative practitioners whose approaches he had spent years reviling.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“Automobile production quadrupled annually between 1945 and 1955.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“Even after they were told they had received the placebo version of the surgery, they continued to walk better, declared they slept more soundly, reported they were able to mow the lawn again, and more.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“She reacted to this with hostility and openly maintained a prayer vigil outside the intensive care unit, praying that her son would die because of the shame he had caused her.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“the family doctor was summoned, and pronounced me stricken with fever.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“Miracles could become experiences that people, armed with right understanding, could summon themselves, for themselves.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“psychosomatic medicine would work alongside homeopathy and herbalism in the larger effort to create a more natural and earthbound approach to healing.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“These symptoms could be alleviated best, he learned, by encouraging soldiers to confront the frightening memories and make some kind of peace with them.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“there just could not be that many incestuous fathers and uncles walking the streets of Vienna.”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

“it is not enough to cure the sick; you have to cure them with methods accepted by the community.”18”
― Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine