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Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine
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By
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, Vice President of Research and Education, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA
Tina Amorok
Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD, Director, Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA;
former Executive Director of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
. Institute of Noetic Sciences
Description
This collection of essays on integral medicine, consciousness, and healing integrates mainstream medical knowledge with recent developments
in the emerging areas of frontier sciences and insights from alternative healing perspectives. It promotes a model of healing in which
personal relationships, emotions, meaning, and belief systems are viewed as fundamental points of connection between body, mind, spirit,
society, and nature. Integral medicine embraces the recognition that human beings possess emotional, spiritual, and relational dimensions
that are essential in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the cultivation of wellness.
Readers learn from the leaders in
the emerging field of integral medicine and consciousness research, from the most well known (Deepak Chopra), to the frontline policy
makers (James Gordon?one of the heads of the White House Commission on Conventional and Complementary and Alternative Medicine). Readers
also gain insights from health professionals who have experienced healing within themselves and witnessed remarkable healing in their
patients. We hear from other medical professionals (through the essays and the interviews on the accompanying DVD) who approach medicine
from an array of cultural perspectives, and can attest to this multicultural, interdisciplinary, and participatory healing system in
action. Consciousness and Healing contains 47 essays in the book plus 9 bonus essays read aloud on the DVD. Essays are short and in language
suited to an audience of both lay and professional readers, with extensive references on the DVD to original scientific studies for those
interested in further exploration.
Contents
Foreword: The Integral Vision of Healing - Ken Wilber
Preface: The Integral Impulse: A New Perspective for
Medicine - Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D.
I: Defining Integral Medicine Editors
Introduction
– Towards a
Post Modern Integral Medicine - Elliott Dacher
– An Integral Approach to Medicine - John Astin and Alexander W. Astin.
– From Integrative
to Integral Medicine: A Leap of Faith - William Benda
II: Mapping the Healing System Editors
Introduction
Mind-Body
Medicine
– Mind and Mindlessness in Mind-Body Research - Harris Dienstfrey
– The Psychosomatic Network: Foundations of Mind-Body
Medicine - Candace Pert, Henry Dreher, and Michael R. Ruff
– Psychological Aspects of Mind-Body Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls from
Research with Cancer Patients - Stephanie Simonton and Allen Sherman
New Perspectives on the Body
– Meaning and the History of
the Body: Toward a Postmodern Medicine - David Michael Levin
– Breathing, Moving, Sensing, and Feeling: Somatics and Integral Medicine
- Don Hanlon Johnson
– Transformational Surgery: Symbol, Ritual and Initiation in Contemporary Cosmetic Surgery - Loren Eskenazi
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Healing and Transformation Through Expressive Arts: Dance as Integral Therapy and as a Healing Force - Anna Halprin and Michael Samuels
Re-Visioning
Illness
– What Does Illness Mean? - Larry Dossey
– Living with Cancer: From Victim to Victor, The Integration of Mind, Body and
Spirit - Caryle Hirshberg
– Our Evolving Views of Health and Illness: What Does it All Mean? - Richard B. Miles
Honoring the Spectrum
of Life
– The Conflict of Biological & Cultural Imperatives - Joseph Chilton Pearce
– Aging with Awareness - Ron Valle & Mary
Mohs
– Timeless Mind, Ageless Body - Deepak Chopra
– An Integral Approach to the End of Life - Karen Wyatt
– Consciousness Beyond
Death - Marilyn Schlitz
III: Healing: A Move Toward Wholeness Editor
Introduction
Psychology?s Movement Toward
Wholeness
– Integral Psychology: Psychology of the Whole Human Being - Bahman Shirazi
– Psychology of the Future: Lessons from
Modern Consciousness Research - Stanislav Grof
– Transpersonal Images: Implications for Health - William Braud
Spirituality, Religion & Healing
– Etiology Recapitulates Ontology: Reflections on Restoring the Spiritual Dimension to Models of the Determinants of Health
- Jeff Levin
– The Practices of Essential Spirituality - Roger Walsh
– Opening Your Heart: Anatomically, Emotionally, Spiritually
- Dean Ornish
– The Return of Prayer - Larry Dossey
Essential Capacities
– A Prolegomenon to an Epidemiology of Love: Theory,
Measurement, and Health Outcomes - Jeff Levin
– The Art and Science of Forgiveness - Frederic Luskin
– Gratefulness - Brother David
Steindl-Rast
– The Contemplative Mind in Society - Jon Kabat-Zinn
IV: Honoring Multiple Ways of Knowing Editors
Introduction
Epistemological Pluralism
– The Implications of Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Science and the Scientific
Process - Marilyn Schlitz and Willis Harman
– The Technologies of Shamanic States of Consciousness - Stanley Krippner
– Multiple
Ways of Knowing - Frances Vaughan
Integrating the Wisdom of the World?s Healing Systems
– Restoration of Dynamic Balance: Traditional
Ways of Healing Expressed through Navajo Consciousness - Nancy C. Maryboy and David Begay
– The Spiritual Heart of Tibetan Medicine:
Its Contribution to the Modern World - Sogyal Rinpoche
– Ancient Times to Present: Changing Perspectives on Healing Energy in Traditional
Chinese Medicine - Garret Yount, Yifang Qian, and Honglin Zhang
V: Envisioning a New Story for Health & Healing
Editor Introduction
Transformations of Medicine
– Recapturing the Soul of Medicine - Rachel Naomi Remen
– Through Conventional
Medicine to Integral Medicine: Challenges and Promises - Tom Janisse
– Transformation of the Healer: The Application of Ken Wilber?s
Integral Model to Family Practice Medicine - Larry George
– Metaphysics of Virtual Caring Communities - Jean Watson
Socio-Political
Transformations of Integral Medicine
– The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and the Future
of Healthcare - James S. Gordon and Marilyn Schlitz
– Sociopolitical Challenges of Integral Medicine - Sumedha Khanna
Healthy
Earth-Healthy Human
– The Ecozoic Era - Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry
– Living in the Earth: Ecopsychology, Health and Psychotherapy
- Sarah Conn
– Surviving the Great Dying - Michael Lerner
– Healing through Collective Consciousness: The Therapeutic Nature of
the Human/Animal Bond - William Benda and Rondi Lightmark
Social Healing
– Social Healing: Herald of a Shift in Human Consciousness
- James O?Dea
– Reinventing the Human - Thomas Berry
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 656 pages, publication date: OCT-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06800-3
ISBN-10: 0-443-06800-3
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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