Irish Guide to Complementary Alternative Therapies, by Lucy Costigan (Wolfhound, no price given)

If you're convinced that you need active balancing, polarity therapy or past-life regression, this book will tell you where you…

If you're convinced that you need active balancing, polarity therapy or past-life regression, this book will tell you where you can get it - and, more importantly, what it is. Lucy Costigan, a practising therapist and, by the sounds of it, an extremely well-balanced person, offers a path through the maze of alternative medicine, with enough phone numbers, case studies, details of training and suggestions for further reading to satisfy the most avid New Age activist. A.W.

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