Rabbi Simkha Weintraub is a social worker and director of the National Center for Jewish Healing in New York, N.Y. He co-edited a publication by the center titled Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery. He is also the editor of Healing of Soul, Healing of Body: Spiritual Leaders Unfold the Strength and Solace in […]

Dr. Christina Puchalski is director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality & Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which develops educational, clinical and research programs for physicians and other health-care professionals on the role of spirituality and health in medicine. A professor of medicine and health sciences at GWU’s School of Medicine, and a member […]

Josephine P. Briggs is director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Research into the interconnectedness of the body and mind is funded by the center, which was created in 1992 (as the Office of Alternative Medicine) in response to the public’s growing interest in alternative health therapies, such as yoga […]

Integris maintains a list of current studies about the mind-body connection.

Read “How the Mind Hurts and Heals the Body,” by Oakley Ray of Vanderbilt University.

Read “An Analysis of the Field of Spirituality, Religion and Health,” by David Hufford for an overview on studies on religion and health.

Read “Faith, Healing: Is There a Proven Link?,” about the debate between Sloan and Harold Koenig, founding co-director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality, Theology and Health. The article is from the Nov. 25, 2003, Columbia Spectator.

Read a critique of the literature on religion, spirituality and health by Richard P. Sloan, director of the behavioral medicine program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, N.Y.

Read about the “relaxation response” as defined by the father of mind-body medicine research, Dr. Herbert Benson.