Article November 26, 1984 Issue

SECOND THOUGHT

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Richard Higgins

The Boston Globe

From The Boston Globe, August 29, 1984

"In a new book, [Dr. Herbert] Benson says that belief, coupled with meditation, can augment the physiological benefits he documented in his earlier work. He dubs this effect the Faith Factor ...." [Dr. Benson is a cardiologist at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and is on the faculty of Harvard University Medical School.]

"What is novel is Benson's effort to recast the argument in terms acceptable to the Western scientific mind, and to explore some of the cultural biases that have caused medical academe to dismiss the notion of mind-over-matter as a beguiling but unprovable cliche.

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