The mind/body effect

how behavioral medicine can show you the way to better health.

by Herbert Benson

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Published 1980 by Berkley Books in New York .
Written in

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ID Numbers
Open Library	OL21405839M
ISBN 10	0425046990
OCLC/WorldCa	7047430

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