For those who are interested, in the following controversial web page I go into some detail about the role that spiritual-based faith, mind-based reason and physical reality all play in the prevention and treatment of the things which make us sick.
I make it clear that I have been influenced by, and respect, therapists, medical and otherwise, who take a holistic, integrative and inclusive (including the so-called patient) approach to the prevention and treatment of spiritual, mental and physical diseases.
One of the doctors, among other kinds of therapists, I write about is Dr. Milton Erickson (1901-1980)--MD, psychiatrist and originator of a very unique kind of hypnosis, which is quite unlike the commonly-held idea of hypnosis.
http://brainmeta.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=18&t=17184