Berder, Germaine — Your Hands Can Help to Heal You

Rider & Company, 1955, Second Impression, Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth), Good Condition, Good, Your Hands Can Help to Heal You is a rare and historically significant health and wellness book The book serves as an early pioneer in the mid-20th-century Western wave of alternative and complementary therapies. Berder's central thesis is that the human body possesses an inherent self-healing capability that can be directly stimulated and directed through one's own hands. Long before contemporary somatic practices became mainstream, Berder argued that touch and conscious awareness could treat ailments by unblocking physical and energetic restrictions. 224 pages. Slight foxing to front endpaper. Dust Jacket is fully intact, but has small holes or chips down flap edges and other signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Black titles spine. illustrated by b/w. line drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Medicine & Health; Alternative Health; Healing; New Age & Alternative; Psychology & Psychiatry. Inventory No: 5452.