mind-body medicine

mind-body medicine
a holistic approach to medicine that takes into account the effect of the mind on physical processes, including the effects of psychosocial stressors and conditioning, particularly as they affect the immune system; many of the therapeutic techniques used have as their purpose increasing the body's natural resistance to disease by managing the stressors.

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