Lewis E. Mehl*, M.D., Ph.D., coming from a background of Cherokee Indian and Kentucky hillbilly, earned doctoral degrees in both medicine and psychology at Stanford University. As director of the Health Resources Group, a holistic healing center in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, he has synthesized these two therapeutic disciplines. In his book Mind and Matter: A Healing Approach to Chronic Illness, he espouses the belief that healing is spiritual and that it develops from emotion and dialogue in the doctor-client relationship.