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To the Editor.—A persistent and pervasive fallacy that sadly is still very much alive in modern medicine is recycled once again in a book review¹ of the Dictionary of Alternative Medicine. Dr Qureshi defined the following informal therapeutic systems as "fringe" medicine: aromatherapy, massage therapy, biofeedback, light therapy, color therapy, sound therapy, energy medicine, music therapy, hydrotherapy, mind/body medicine, and iridology.

The fallacy is the unfounded, but persistently perpetuated, belief that mind-body medicine and biofeedback and, no doubt, their associated disciplines of behavioral, psychosomatic, and psychological medicine are just other species of alternative or "fringe" medicine and thus potential add-on programs for those clinics and hospitals that are thinking of or actually engaging in the promotion and provision of complementary medical services. The recycling of this fallacy continues to cloud our vision of the mind-body connection as a cornerstone of mainstream practice.

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