Medicine in the West has always been about finding the problem and fixing that one specific problem. All the different specialities are only a testament to this way of thinking. Eastern medicine has always taken a more holistic approach, looking at body together. Considering eastern medicines like Chinese medicine have been around for so long, they might be doing something right.
Doctors have always to some extent known that the mind plays a role in disease outcome. There has not been much clinical evidence in the past. More recently, anecdotal evidence is now being supported by hard clinical research.
During the course of the next couple months, I am going to be looking into the "emerging" field of holistic medicine and its affects on disease outcome. I'm going to attempt to find terminal disease and see how well they play out with different forms of psychotherapy. The worst thing i could discover is that it the whole mind stuff doesn't work. I don't expect to find out that having a positive mental outlook is bad for a disease outcome. Hopefully, I learn that having a positive attidude is going to increase the rate of possitive outcomes.
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