This book brings together an extraordinary and inspiring collection of interviews and encounters with leading healers and therapists working in complementary, alternative and integrative medicine.
Through intimate conversations with top scientists and physicians about their own personal experiences with alternative modalities - both as human beings and as healers - readers are exposed to the many different disciplines that comprise this field. Additionally, through viewing the collection of conversations as a whole, the underlying principles that make alternative and complementary medicine so workable are revealed. Excitingly, issues of spirituality - and is there a God, some greater power and how does this relate to health? - is discussed by many of the scientists, making this one of the first books to actually bring this issue to the forefront.
Foreword Introduction Part 1: Conversations About Mind-Body Spirit 1. Mobilizing the Life Force, Treating the Individual 2. Imagery and Ritual in Healing 3. Neuropeptides, AIDS and The Science of Mind-Body Healing 4. Imagery: The Bodys Natural Language for Healing 5. Mind-Body Healing: A Prospective Part 2: Conversations About Death and Dying 6. Being with Death and Dying 7. Music Thanatology and Spiritual Care of the Dying Part 3: Conversations About Alternative Medical Systems 8. A Natural Approach to Health 9. Biological Medicine 10. Standing at the Axis of Creation 11. From Neuroscience to Naturopathy 12. Holistic Nursing and Healing Rituals Part 4: Conversations About Spirituality, Love, and Healing 13. Kitchen Table Wisdom: A Conversation that Heals 14. Creating Sacred Space 15. On Spiritual Healing and the American Visionary Tradition 16. The Power of Love 17. The Importance of Spirituality in Mental Health Part 5: Conversations About The Art and Science of Healing 18. The Science and Art of Medicine 19. Healing Energy/Healing Intention 20. Subjectivity and the Placebo Effect 21. Research, Homeopathy, and Therapeutic Consultation Part 6: Conversations About Consciousness and Intentionality 22. The Non-Local Mind and Eternity Medicine 23. On Consciousness, Causation and Evolution 24. The Nature of Reality Part 7: Conversations About New Views of Health and Healing 25. Healing the Heart, Reversing the Disease 26. The Mantra Study Project 27. Ecological Medicine 28. The Capacity to Heal 29. Integrated Patient Care: One Physicians Story Part 8: Conversations About Medical Education 30. CAM and the Role of the Academic Health Center 31. Transforming Medical Education Part 9: Conversations About Healing With Hands 32. Healing and the Natural World 33. Therapeutic Touch and A Healing Way 34. Healing with Therapeutic Touch Part 10: Conversations About Indigenous Medicine 35. In Search of Plants that Heal 36. Medicine and The Inner Realities 37. Shamanic Healing: We are Not Alone 38. Shamanism in Medial Practice 39. South African Shamanism and the Tree of Health Part 11: Conversations About Cross-Cultural Medicine 40. Eastern Medicine for Western People 41. The Fundamentals of Ayurvedic Medicine 42. Gifts from Tibetan Medicine Part 12: Conversations About Medicine as a Spiritual Path 43. Medical Practice as a Spiritual Journey 44. The Heart of Healing: Essential Spirituality for Healing Professionals Index
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