Larry Dossey

The surprising, dramatic truth about prayer how it can harm us...and how we can protect ourselves From the New York Times bestselling author of Healiung Words and Prayer is Good Medicine comes this compelling exploration of the negative side of prayer. Larry Dossey, M.D., offers remarkable evidence that, just as prayer can be used positively to affect health and healing, it can be also be used for negative and destructive purposed. With fascinating true stories, case histories, and scientific analysis, Dossey explores the nature of "toxic" prayer and teaches us how to protect ourselves from its threatening influence.

Physician Larry Dossey -- today's foremost authority and most highly sought-after speaker on the relationship between prayer and healing -- offers practical methods and illuminating explorations of the what, where, how and why of the power of prayer to affect our health. Putting aside confounding scientific jargon, Dossey employs his trademark style of informed and warmly anecdotal writing to examine people's hopes and expectations of prayer, as well as their anxieties and misconceptions. For readers who want to understand the spiritual dimension of health and healing. Dossey has created an invaluable and inspiring resource.

Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author "of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul" offers a bold integration of science and spirituality.