Connelly, Diane M.
Cousins, Norman
Myss, Caroline
Amazon.com What sets Anatomy of the Spirit apart is Carolyn Myss's ability to blend diverse religious and spiritual beliefs into a succinct discussion of health and human anatomy. For example, when describing the seven energy fields of the human body, she fuses Christian sacraments with Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life. Fortunately, Myss is a skilled writer as well as researcher, able to ground her extensive spiritual and religious discussions by using real-life stories and a tight writing style. Those who are squeamish with the notion of biography affecting biology will find this book a struggle (in one chapter, Myss links pancreatic cancer with a man's refusal to unburden his life and start fulfilling his dreams). Many, however, hail Myss for creating a valuable contribution to the ongoing exploration of spirituality and health. --Gail Hudson Amazon.com Audiobook Review A former journalist turned medical intuitive, Caroline Myss soothingly fuses Hindu chakras, Christian sacraments, and the Judaic Tree of Life to form her seven stages of power in the human body. Reading her own work to an appreciative studio audience, her tone is often confessional as she builds her case by using stories from her own life of spiritual growth. The audience responds with mild laughter at her wry asides, as if at a New Age dinner party somewhere in the Colorado mountains--where... read more --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Book Description Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the "hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene" (Publishers Weekly). Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, Dr. Myss's work shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body. Anatomy of the Spirit also presents Dr. Myss's breakthrough model of the body's seven centers of spiritual and physical power, in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions-the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life-to demonstrate the seven stages through which everyone must pass in the search for higher consciousness and spiritual maturity. With this model, Dr. Myss shows how you can develop your own latent powers of intuition as you simultaneously cultivate your personal power and spiritual growth. By teaching you to see your body and spirit in a new way, Anatomy of the Spirit provides you with the tools for spiritual maturity and physical wholeness that will change your life.
Dossey, Larry
Bolen, Jean Shinoda
From Booklist Jungian analyst Bolen offers a thought-provoking and optimistic book about the roles patient, friend, and physician may play during life-threatening illnesses. A patient entering a hospital with a serious illness is, she posits, similar to Demeter, the Sumerian Inanna, and other mythical characters who made trips to the underworld and experienced the psychological pall of losing their will and sense of control. Bolen argues that standard psychotherapy for such patients can be harmful because it concentrates on what is wrong with the patient; depth psychology, on the other hand, focuses on what is right with the patient. Indeed, Bolen maintains that life-threatening illness can provide opportunities, such as a chance to ask "who you are when you stop doing" and "do you matter?" . Bolen concludes that the importance of the soul has been neglected. Patients, family members, and caregivers should concentrate on freeing the soul and supporting the individual in whom it resides. William Beatty Ingram The author of Goddesses in Everywoman describes how serious illness can actually be a soul-transforming experience that eliminates neurosis and leads to the essential truths of life. 60,000 first printing. Tour.
Michael P. Milburn, PhD
Motz, Julie
Table of Contents One INTO THE OPERATING ROOM Two DISCOVERING HANDS OF LIFE Three THE ENERGY OF HEALING Four HEARTS AND LUNGS Five SURGICAL JOURNEYS Six PATIENTS AND DOCTORS Seven BRAIN CANCER SURGERIES Eight BREAST CANCER SURGERIES Nine REBUILDING THE BODY, RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST Ten MUSCLES AND NERVES Eleven PRENATAL AND BIRTH TRAUMAS Twelve THE MANY MEANINGS OF SURGERY Thirteen THE VIOLENCE OF MEDICINE Fourteen WHERE SHOULD HEALING START? Fifteen THE BREATH OF THE SOUL SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX From Booklist In numerous operating rooms since the early 1990s, Motz has tuned in to the energy of anesthetized patients to help them process and balance blocked emotions in their bodies. The surgeries range from open heart procedures, heart transplants, and removals of brain tumors to mastectomies and breast reconstructions. Just an account of these experiences would make for a fascinating read, but this book also tackles the larger issues: the violence of medicine as a reflection of a violent society and... read more
Carlson, Richard (Editor)
Ingram In original essays, the top authorities in healing point to the underlying principles on which their work rests. Contributors include: Bernie Siegel, M.D., Louise Hay, Hugh Prather and more.
Gaynor, Mitchell L.
From Library Journal Here are two books on coping with cancer in the long term. Written by the director of the largest cancer program devoted to providing free psychological/social support to patients and their families, The Wellness Community Guide to Fighting for Recovery from Cancer aims to reach some of the more than one million Americans diagnosed with cancer each year. In this revised version of From Victim to Victor (LJ 10/15/87), Benjamin takes a relentlessly cheerful, upbeat, and positive approach, emphasizing stress reduction, visualization techniques, immune system maximization, improved diet, exercise, and use of the Patient Active concept, which blends psychology and psychoneuroimmunology in an effort to convince patients that they can counter their disease. He argues that in fighting to recover, patients will improve the quality of their lives and, by following specific suggestions, will gain hope, control, and the ability to take advantage of partnerships with their healthcare providers, support groups, family, and friends. This energizing book has valuable appendixes to aid in this process and is enthusiastically recommended. Gaynor is associate director at New York's Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center and a professor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. His Healing Essence, which addresses many of the same concerns as Benjamin's book, offers a seven-step technique called ESSENCE that stresses mind/body connections. An acronym for experience, see, surrender, empower, nurture, create, and embody, ESSENCE is recommended as a means of handling fear, going beyond suffering, ending melancholy, and creating hope. While both these books focus on empowerment and self-work, Benjamin's book has the edge with its energetic message and gentle yet firm guidance through the processes of taking control while working within a medical framework. Recommended for consumer health and patient education collections. Janet M. Coggan, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Oz M.D., Mehmet
Table of Contents Foreword Dr. Dean Ornish Prologue: Cutting Edge 1. The Biology of an MI 2. Slow Down for Unicorns 3. High Tech, No Tech 4. Crusoe Calls 5. Rainbow Man 6. Lessons from Wat Po 7. Making Waves 8. Spiritual Will 9. Choices 10. Universal Healing Epilogue Further Readings Resources Acknowledgments Index From Booklist Oz combines capabilities in technology and patient-oriented medicine. His left-ventricular assist device keeps patients going until transplantation is possible, and because of his profound caring, he gives patients the best of Western medicine and a variety of alternative practices. His tendency to combine approaches in his profession seems to derive naturally from the cross-cultural life he has led. Born in Turkey, he maintains a close relationship with Turkish culture. He has traveled widely... read more
Frohock, Fred M.
From Kirkus Reviews A sophisticated and sympathetic look at nonconventional healing methods and their place in a pluralistic democracy. Frohock (Political Science/Syracuse Univ.; Special Care, 1986) poses two tough questions: What do we make of claims that alternative realities exist and that contact with them can lead to miraculous cures? And should alternative healing be free from state regulation in a liberal democracy? Neither gets a clear answer, but there's much pleasure along the way as Frohock explores the social and spiritual issues involved. His approach is eccentric: ``narratives'' constructed from interviews with patients and healers (names are changed), interspersed with historico-political analysis and with--this must be a first in a scholarly book--the ``wholly imaginative,'' coldly lucid voice of Luke, a child battling cancer (he's been invented, we are told, ``to provide access to interior or subjective levels of experience that linear texts cannot''). The healers whose stories we hear include Pentecostal ministers, Catholic priests, Christian Scientists, homeopaths, an Orthodox Jew who straddles Western and alternative medicines; the patients include drug-addicted doctors, dying children, car-crash victims. More often than not, the cure seems nothing less than a full-fledged miracle. Frohock balances these narratives with clearheaded discussions of some age-old puzzlers: What is health (inner balance, spiritual integrity, freedom from disease)? What is mental competence? How should church and state interact? Usually, Frohock presents the options and lets the reader decide; scholarly distancing, however, cannot hide his sympathy for alternative medicine--or at least its right to be taken seriously. The inaugural volume in the Univ. of Chicago's ``Morality and Society'' series, which deals with ``moral issues from a social science perspective''--and, on every level, a sterling debut. (Two line drawings.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. From Book News, Inc. Interweaves facets of the controversy surrounding alternative avenues to healing: the history of medicine and religions tradition, the nature of spirituality and personality, the role of the state in personal affairs, and testimony of people in the trenches of this fierce battle--into which Frohock adds the voice of a central, fictional, character. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Dossey, Larry
From Kirkus Reviews Physician Dossey (Medicine and Meaning, 1991, etc.) continues to probe links between medicine and spirituality in this popular study of the healing power of prayer. Prayer heals? Hardly news in the religious world, where Hebrew Bible and New Testament alike attest to prayer's medicinal effects. But for science, it's a revelation, one confirmed by dozens of laboratory experiments that Dossey cites. Prayer can help with high blood pressure, asthma, heart attacks, headaches, and anxiety; moreover, it can alter enzyme activity, blood cell growth, and the germination of seeds. Dossey rejects the traditional Judeo-Christian notion of prayer as a relationship to a transcendental God, offering instead his own quasi-pantheistic view of prayer as a ``genuinely nonlocal event'' directed to the ``Absolute'' in all things. In any case, prayer apparently works: Even unconscious or dream prayer, it seems, can be effective. At the same time, prayers often remain unfulfilled, and Dossey blasts New Agers for preaching that illness is the patient's fault and that physical health always reflects spiritual health, pointing out that many saints have suffered from terrible physical or emotional maladies. An attitude of reverence and optimism is the best approach, he says, to spiritual and physical well-being. Not likely to sway hard-core materialists, especially when Dossey dips into the deep end by asserting that patients can rewrite their medical histories by ``intervening in subatomic processes in the past.'' Nonetheless, this raises new questions (Should you ask permission before praying for someone else? Should a physician pray for his patients?) about an old but little-studied phenomenon. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Ingram The author of Space, Time & Medicine shares the latest evidence that links prayer, healing, and medicine, presenting examples and anecdotes, and showing readers which methods of prayer show the greatest potential for healing. $20,000 ad/promo. Book Description In this groundbreaking classic linking prayer and health, physician Larry Dossey shares the latest evidence connecting prayer, healing, and medicine. Using real-life examples and personal anecdotes, Dossey proves how prayer can be as valid a healing tool as drugs or surgery. Dossey explores which methods of prayer show the greatest potential for healing; presents compelling evidence that patients' and doctors' belief in a treatment increases its efficacy; explains that discoveries in modern physics allow us to integrate the spiritual and the scientific and make the power of prayer provable in the lab; and much more. Provocative, engaging, and powerfully instructive, Healing Words restores the spiritual art of healing to the science of medicine. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Church, Dawson
Pearsall, Paul
Feild, Reshad
Moss, Richard
Bibliography: p. 155-156.
Snow, Candace
Profiles of Healing
Bernie S Siegel
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
Dossey, Larry
Ingram A fascinating and controversial study of the central force that human consciousness exerts in health and illness, by the author of Recovering the Soul. Through numerous stories of his own patients, Dr. Dossey, a physician and leading spokesman for serious New Age thought, explores the role of meaning in well-being and mind-body interactions. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Here is a revolutionary new look at medicine and the mind-body connection to healing by a frank and unconventional physician-writer -- a book that taps the power of hope and healing that lies within each of us. Dr. Larry Dossey dared to break with traditional scientific, medical thought in his previous books, Space, Time & Medicine and Recovering The Soul. Now he continues his investigation into the connection between mind, meaning, and illness through fascinating clinical stories from his many... read more --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Shealy, Norman C.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.
Hanna Kroeger
Geis, Larry (Editor)
Rick Smolan
Amazon.com An extraordinary look at the emotions, the mystery, the faces, and the remarkable diversity of health, healing, and medicine around the world. Breathtaking original photographs and illuminating essays combine to present a unique and hopeful portrait of humanity's age-old fascination with the body and how to keep it healthy. Journey through the pages of this book and discover: Tibetan healers using miraculous "precious pills" made of diamonds and rubies; Red Cross medical personnel scrambling through the crossfire in El Salvador; healers in central Africa using soldier ants in place of stitches; an emergency-room team in Baltimore making split-second life-and-death decisions; and American doctors and researchers creating biological and pharmacological miracles. Book Description The Power to Heal is an extraordinary look at the emotions, the mystery, the faces, and the remarkable diversity of health, healing and medicine around the world. Breathtaking original photographs, detailed captions, and illuminating essays combine to present a unique and hopeful portrait of humanitys age-old fascination with the body and how to keep it healthy. One hundred of the worlds leading photographers and a score of equally celebrated writers--among them Dr. Michael Chrichton, Maxine... read more
Chopra, Deepak
Amazon.com Early on in Quantum Healing, Deepak Chopra asks an interesting question: Why, when your body mends a broken arm, is it not considered a miracle, but when your body rids itself of cancer, it is? Chopra believes the two phenomena spring from the same well, that the body is capable of doing much more than we assume it can. He calls this ability to cure disease from within "quantum healing," and shows how we're all capable of it. He believes intelligence exists everywhere in our bodies, in each of our 50 trillion cells, and that therefore each cell knows how to heal itself. It's a fascinating assertion, one that remains unprovable by science but overwhelmingly true by anecdote. Book Description Here is an extraordinary new approach to healing by an extraordinary physician-writer -- a book filled with the mystery, wonder, and hope of people who have experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from cancer and other serious illnesses. Dr. Deepak Chopra, a respected New England endocrinologist, began his search for answers when he saw patients in his own practice who completely recovered after being given only a few months to live. In the mid-1980's he returned to his native India to... read more
Dossey, Larry
Lozynsky, Artem (Editor)
Schneider, Meir
WEIL, ANDREW MD
Amazon.com It is clear that all organisms have highly developed mechanisms for self-repair and healing -- but according to Dr. Weil, Western medicine often interferes instead of working with these systems. In the course of his argument, he describes several extraordinary case studies of drastic spontaneous healing. Perhaps the most valuable feature of the book is his more gradual eight-week program of strengthening the ability of your immune, endocrine, circulatory, and nervous systems to provide such spontaneous healing. Product Description: "Memorable...Dr. Weil makes his case carefully and clearly." --The New York Times Book Review
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This book is destined to become a classic." --Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind Drawing on fascinating case histories from his own practice as well as medical techniques he has observed in his travels around the world, Dr. Weil shows how the mechanisms of self-diagnosis and self-regeneration have worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. But spontaneous healing is also the essential element in the maintenance of our basic daily health. The book outlines an eight-week program that each of us can use to alter our diet, avoid environmental toxins, and reduce stress in order to enhance our innate healing powers. The best medicine does not merely combat germs or suppress symptoms, but rather works hand in hand with the body's natural defenses to manage illness. Building on this fundamental truth and tapping into the intricate interaction of mind and body, Dr. Weil arrives at a major new synthesis of conventional and alternative medical treatments. At once practical and inspirational, Spontaneous Healing gives each one of us the power and the wisdom to draw on the sources of health we hold within.
Weil, Andrew
Amazon.com It is clear that all organisms have highly developed mechanisms for self-repair and healing -- but according to Dr. Weil, Western medicine often interferes instead of working with these systems. In the course of his argument, he describes several extraordinary case studies of drastic spontaneous healing. Perhaps the most valuable feature of the book is his more gradual eight-week program of strengthening the ability of your immune, endocrine, circulatory, and nervous systems to provide such spontaneous healing. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Library Journal Highly recommended. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Benson, Herbert
From Booklist Benson pursued the relationships between medicine and belief for years before founding Harvard's Mind/Body Institute in 1988. Here, with Stark's writing help, he reports many scientific studies of this relationship, of the placebo effect, and especially of the "remembered wellness" (i.e., desire for health) effect. His three-legged stool of health and well-being--pharmaceuticals, surgery and other procedures, and self-care--helps keep him focused as he explores the reasons for the occurrence of remembered wellness and the mechanisms by which it acts. Many physicians do not want to admit the effectiveness of remembered wellness because it cannot be seen or quantified, but Benson points out that only 15 percent of medical treatments are based on "reliable medical evidence" and that emotions, feelings, and traditions must be borne in mind. In the last chapters, he looks particularly at the roles that religion, faith, and spiritual experiences play in healing. William Beatty From Kirkus Reviews An elaboration, a rehash even, of Benson's Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Beliefs (1984). Benson uses the analogy of a three-legged stool to describe how health and well-being rely on the balanced application of (1) pharmaceuticals, (2) surgery and procedures, and (3) self-care. Greater utilization of self-care has been his career focus, and here he recounts his discovery of the relaxation response, his research into the placebo effect (renamed here... read more
Thomas, Sandra P.
Table of Contents Foreword by Virginia Trotter Betts, MSN, JD, RN vii Preface ix Introduction xiii PART I: Uncovering Nurses' Anger and Pain 1 Chapter 1: Telling Our Stories: What Are Nurses Angry About? 3 Chapter 2: Exposing the Consequences of Mismanaged Anger 23 Chapter 3: Differentiating Between Rational and Irrational Anger 61 Chapter 4: Modifying Nonproductive Anger Styles 81 PART II: Connecting With Others 101 Chapter 5: Opening Dialogue With Colleagues 103 Chapter 6: Forging Alliances With Patients 137 PART III: Healing Ourselves 155 Chapter 7: Examining What We Learned About Anger While Growing Up 157 Chapter 8: Overcoming the Legacy of a Painful or Abusive Past 168 Chapter 9: Caring for the Self 183 PART IV: Claiming Our Power 197 Chapter 10: Taking a New Stance Toward the Concept of Power 199 Chapter 11: Solving Problems 209 Chapter 12: Dreaming the Future of Nursing 225 Conclusion 231 Epilogue 235 References 240 Index 269
Myss, Caroline M.
Amazon.com A woman tells you, within minutes of meeting her, that she's in a support group for incest victims. In theory, this woman is trying to recover from her childhood trauma, but in reality, Caroline Myss writes, she's one of a growing army of people who practice "woundology," the use of their pain and suffering to manipulate those around them. Myss first noticed this phenomenon in the late 1980s, and began to analyze why so many people seemed to choose to carry such painful problems so proudly through life, to define themselves by the awful things that had happened to them. She offers a program to use "symbolic power"--a deep, spiritual insight that surpasses any conjured by the conscious mind--to craft a genuine conclusion to the illness or injury. From AudioFile Myss enjoys an easy rapport with her audience. The interviewer, Tammy Simon, is clearly familiar with Myss's work and the result is an informative discussion that nicely augments the structured presentation. J.E.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Achterberg, Jeanne
From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Laurie Pearce Women possess a strong tradition as healers, from ancient Danish shamans to modern midwives, physicians and nurses. Throughout the years, however, women have been systematically marginalized as socially legitimate practitioners by their male counterparts. Jeanne Achterberg explores this history in Woman as Healer by illuminating the connections between Western world views and women's tribulations and contributions as healers. As painful as these truths may be, Jeanne imparts an empowering tone to her discussions and emphasizes as much as she can the spirit of the "warrior" woman, persisting through the ages, in women who heal with honor and clarity. Ingram This groundbreaking work examines the role of the feminine in the Western healing traditions. Drawing upon anthropology, history, botany, archaeology and the behaviorial sciences, Dr. Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as honored healers; the persecuted healers of the witch trial era; midwifery and nursing in the 19th century; and the developing healing arts of our time. 10 halftones.