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Consciousness & healing : integral approaches to mind-body medicine
Title:
Consciousness & healing : integral approaches to mind-body medicine
ISBN:
9780443068003

9789996004469
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, Pa. : Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, ©2005.
Physical Description:
lx, 585 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
General Note:
"More than 60 contributing essayists, including: Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Dean Ornish, Candace Pert, Rachel Naomi Remen, Ken Wilber"--Cover.

DVD contains interviews, essays, resources, and references.
Contents:
Defining integral medicine / Towards a post-modern integral medicine / integral approach to medicine / From integrative to integral medicine : a leap of faith / Mapping the healing system / Mind and mindlessness in mind-body research / psychosomatic network : foundations of mind-body medicine / Psychological aspects of mind-body medicine : promises and pitfalls from research with cancer patients / Meaning and the history of the body : toward a postmodern medicine / Breathing, moving, sensing, and feeling : somatics and integral medicine / Transformational surgery : symbol, ritual, and initiation in contemporary cosmetic surgery / Healing and transformation through expressive arts / What does illness mean? / Living with cancer : from victim to victor, the integration of mind, body, and spirit / Our evolving views of health and illness : what does it all mean? / conflict of biological and cultural imperatives / Aging with awareness / Timeless mind, ageless body / integral approach to the end of life / Consciousness beyond death? / Healing : a move toward wholeness / Integral psychology : psychology of the whole human being / Psychology of the future : lessons from modern consciousness research / Transpersonal images : implications for health / Etiology recapitulates ontology : reflections on restoring the spiritual dimension to models of the determinants of health / practices of essential spirituality / Opening your heart : anatomically, emotionally, and spiritually / return of prayer / prolegomenon to an epidemiology of love : theory, measurement, and health outcomes / art and science of forgiveness / Gratefulness / contemplative mind in society / Honoring multiple ways of knowing / implications of alternative and complementary medicine for science and the scientific process / technologies of shamanic states of consciousness / Multiple ways of knowing / Restoration of dynamic balance : traditional ways of healing expressed through Navajo consciousness / spiritual heart of Tibetan medicine : its contribution to the modern world / Changing perspectives on healing energy in traditional Chinese medicine / Envisioning a new story for health and healing / Recapturing the soul of medicine / Through conventional medicine to integral medicine : challenges and promises / Transformation of the healer : the application of Ken Wilber's integral model to family practice medicine / Metaphysics of virtual caring communities / White House commission on complementary and alternative medicine policy and the future of health care / Sociopolitical challenges of integral medicine / ecozoic era / Living in the earth : ecopsychology, health, and psychotherapy / Surviving the great dying / Healing through collective consciousness : the therapeutic nature of the human/animal bond / Social healing : Herald of a shift in human consciousness / Reinventing the human
Summary:
"Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine brings together 67 of the foremost authorities on health and healing to consider the creation of a new, integral perspective. This unique text transcends any singular approach to medicine and addresses how health professionals and patients alike are rethinking the nature of healing."--Jacket.
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