Healing spaces
Subtitle: the science of place and well-being
By: Esther M. Sternberg.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780674033368
Subjects: Architectural design -- Health aspects
Description: If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in this fascinating book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Healing places; title: Seeing and healing; title: Sound and silence; title: Cotton wool and clouds of Frankincense; title: Mazes and labyrinths; title: Finding your wayo.o.o; title: .o.o.o and losing it; title: Healing thought and healing prayer; title: Hormones of hope and healing; title: Hospitals and well-being; title: Healing cities, healing world; title: Healing gardens and my place of peace.