Faced with lower profits and rapidly increasing premium costs in the 1980s, insurers and employer organizations cleverly parlayed the public perception of worker fraud and abuse in the workers' compensation system (that they helped to create) into massive legislative changes. Over the last decade, state legislators and governors, Republican and Democrat alike, have jumped on this bandwagon, one...

A book with this title cannot but challenge comparison with Sargant"s "Battle for the Mind" and many readers must take it UP hoping that the author will provide as stimulating and profound aPproach as the latter, but in spiritual rather than psychiatric terms.