Download or read book The Healer s Power written by Howard Brody and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on literary works dealing with medical power, Brody argues that proposals to reduce or eliminate the power of the physician are misguided. Instead, there should be guidelines to enable the physician to share with the patient the information and responsibility for deciding on treatment.
Download or read book The Healer s Art written by Eric J. Cassell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, the healer's art. Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipotence in the healer's art, illness and disease, and overcoming the fear of death. Eric J. Cassell, M.D., is an internist and clinical director of the Program for the Study of Ethics and Values in Medicine at Cornell Medical School. His two-volume work Talking with Patients: The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication, and Clinical Technique, is available from The MIT Press in cloth and paperback.
Download or read book Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers written by Mario Incayawar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world. First book on traditional healing and transcultural psychiatry Delineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that include traditional knowledge and healing techniques Assesses issues on efficacy and safety of traditional healers' interventions Includes contributions from leading scholars in this field from South Africa, India, New Zealand, Andorra, Canada, USA, Italy, and the Quichua and Sioux Lakota Nations of South and North America Theme of culture versus science: The psychiatrists discuss the effects of local culture upon mental health and consider the impact, benefit and incorporation of traditional healing as a tool for the clinical psychiatrist. Easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical terms Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of a wide array of mental health trainees, researchers and professionals interested in cultural psychiatry in general and the role of traditional healers around the world.
Download or read book Therapy written by sissy lykou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches. It attempts to demystify and de-stigmatise therapy by answering some common questions posed by prospective clients. lykou presents an accessible overview of psychotherapy and counselling, mapping a variety of the most popular approaches from psychoanalysis and cognitive behavious therapy to embodied and creative therapies, whilst giving an overview of the roots of psychotherapy in traditional and indigenous healing methods. The book also acknowledges criticisms of current approaches, with their neo-liberal heteronormative Eurocentric perspective, and considers where therapy stands in today’s globalised world. The book's structure allows different umbrella theories and their developments to be explored separately but also in relation to one another. This book is essential reading for trainees, a useful reference for qualified therapists who want to deepen their knowledge, a supporting resource for prospective psychotherapy clients, and a companion for readers who simply want to expand their horizons.
Download or read book Innovations in Global Mental Health written by Samuel O. Okpaku and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 2272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life. Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented. Programs for training and education have expanded as a result. Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements. Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks. With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders—25 percent of the world’s non-communicable disease burden—rising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes. This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances. Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.
Download or read book Healer s Light written by Gudata S. Hinika and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided only by the light of his grandmother's dreams, Gudata embarks on an extraordinary journey to quench his thirst for knowledge that, in his impressionable mind, only America could satisfy. In this unique story, we encounter the double-edged sword of challenge and inspiration. Healer's Light: Achieving the Impossible demonstrates the difference one person can make in the lives of thousands. One does not expect a boy from a tiny village in the hinterlands of Southern Ethiopia to put himself through two bachelors degrees, medical school, and become a surgeon; much less become an instrumental force in the establishment of a prestigious Trauma Center; and to be appointed as its leader at a young age. All these pale in comparison to the path he takes as he returns to his roots in rural Ethiopia. He establishes a school system where none existed for fifty years and goes on to build a health village in a shantytown that time and commerce forgot.
Download or read book Women as Healers written by Carol Shepherd McClain and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women as Healers, thirteen contributors explore the intersection of feminist anthropology and medical anthropology in eleven case studies of women in traditional and emergent healing roles in diverse parts of the world. In a spectrum of healing roles ranging from family healers to shamans, diviner-mediums, and midwives, women throughout the world pursue strategic ends through healing, manipulate cultural images to effect cures and explain misfortune, and shape and are shaped by the social and political contexts in which they work. In an introductory chapter, Carol Shepherd McClain traces the evolution of ideas in medical anthropology and in the anthropology of women that have both constrained and expanded our understanding of the significance of gender to healing-one of the most fundamental and universal of human activities. The contributors include Carol Shepherd McClain, Ruthbeth Finerman, Carolyn Nordstrom, Carole H. Browner, William Wedenoja, Marjery Foz, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern, Laurel Kendall, Merrill Signer, Roberto Garcia, Edward C. Green, Carolyn Sargent, and Margaret Reid.
Download or read book Heal the Healer written by Joshua Rosenthal and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re like most healers or caregivers, you’re probably highly empathic and energetically attuned—but don’t always give yourself the same level of care you provide to others. Instead, you go through your days striving to meet the needs of everyone around you. If you struggle with setting boundaries, compassion fatigue, or simply asking for support, Heal the Healer is just the resource you need. Visionary healthcare pioneer and founder of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition Joshua Rosenthal has written a compassionate survival guide for givers—the therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and alternative medicine practitioners filling an ever-widening care gap left by our institutionalized healthcare system—who are chronically stressed, exhausted, and undervalued. Rosenthal calls upon his thirty years in the wellness industry to offer practical advice and actionable exercises that help caregivers, healers, and helpers find more balance in their lives, heal old wounds, decrease stress, and actualize a more joyful future. This book will show you how to: • Set boundaries that protect your well-being • Decrease symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma • Rewrite your story and overcome childhood wounds • Protect your energy and foster a stronger work-life balance • Seek out and take part in a community of peers • Experience more joy Heal the Healer is an approachable and practical guide for stressed-out caregivers who are ready to set healthy boundaries, heal old wounds, and live a fuller, more joyful life.
Download or read book Shroud of the Healer a Matt Rider Detective Thriller written by Christopher Wright and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archbishop Valdieri from New York is impatient to get the Pope to the Clinic of the Little Sisters of Grace in Avignon, France, for treatment. The surgeons at the American-owned clinic are eager to treat the Pope, but the Archbishop suspects there's a problem. Matt Rider, an English PI, is on holiday in Avignon with his girlfriend Zo . They get talking to a local nurse in Avignon. She tells them that all is not well at the American clinic up on the hill. Matt thinks the nurse is crazy - until her husband calls with devastating news. To investigate the clinic, Matt needs some bugs and a phone tap. But he doesn't know that the national security forces are involved, and he doesn't know that one of the surgeons will soon want Zo dead. Shroud of the Healer is the second Matt Rider detective thriller.
Download or read book Marginal Medicine written by Roy Wallis and published by London : Owen. This book was released on 1976 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of all the methods of relief and treatment that exist outside the network of the organized medical profession, including faith healers, Scientologists, osteopaths, Christian Scientists, and much else.
Download or read book The Healer s Tale written by Sharon R. Kaufman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical anthropologist Kaufman (U. of Calif., San Francisco) interviewed seven doctors, eminent in their fields, and trained during the 1920s and 1930s. She interviewed them between 1987 and 1989 (they were all between the 80-83 years old), seeking their life stories and their feelings and thinking about the shape of American medical education and care today. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Integrative Nursing written by Andrew Weil and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of "Integrative Nursing" is a complete roadmap to integrative patient care, providing a guide to the whole person/whole systems assessment and clinical interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Treatment strategies described in this version employ the full complement of evidence-informed methodologies in a tailored, person-centered approach to care. Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as all aspects of the lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, but conventional and alternative. -- From publisher's description
Download or read book Divine Intervention IV A Guide To Healing Within And Living Without written by and published by XavierCharles731. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Spirits written by John P. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims and political refugees does not exist. Broken Spirits aims to bring together the works of the most respected mental health professionals - from the U.S. and abroad - and make available the most current knowledge on complex PTSD, forced migration and cultural sensitivity in diagnosis and treatment.
Download or read book Each Mind a Kingdom written by Beryl Satter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beryl Satter examines New Thought in all its complexity, presenting along the way a captivating cast of characters. In lively and accessible prose, she introduces the people, the institutions, the texts, and the ideas that comprised the New Thought movement.
Download or read book The Healing Journey written by Sue Maisano, PhD and published by Visionary Living, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring spiritual journey of triumph. Sue Maisano was born Xu Liu to a poor farming family in China. Her destiny was to follow in the footsteps of her ancestors. At a young age, a spark lit in Sue to dream big and reach for goals others said were impossible to obtain. How did she do it? In The Healing Journey, Sue Maisano tells her heartfelt story of her rise from poverty and obscurity in a Chinese village to fulfillment and success in America, reaching all of her goals of education, marriage, family, and a thriving healing practice. Now she shares her secrets of how she realized her dreams by following her intuition and spiritual guidance, and spiritual laws that work for everyone. Sue Maisano is a skilled and compassionate teacher. She deftly illustrates how the same spiritual laws and guidance can work for you in the pursuit of your dreams. Share her journey now to achieve your own success and happiness. “This is a book written simply and directly, giving us the story of how a life can flower from what some might consider misfortune to a full and fortunate outcome – just from taking the next step, and the next, in trust and good humor. Sue Maisano demonstrates how making everyday choices aligned with her life purpose made all the difference in her personal transformation.” – Penney Peirce, author of Transparency, Leap of Perception, and Frequency “The Healing Journey is an amazing story about determination and overcoming adversity. Sue’s journey is a remarkable testament to the importance of trusting your intuition and believing in yourself. Her incredible story stands as proof that we all have the power to decide our destiny if we trust in the universe and follow our heart.” – Tonya Madia, author of Living the Intuitive Life
Download or read book Developing a National Mental Health Policy written by Lynne Friedli and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive array of authors with many areas of expertise. Will be of interest to policy researchers and health services as well as to the academic community. Forewords by Julian Lob Levyt and Professor Sir David Goldberg, author of Mental Health in our Future Cities, published by Psychology Press (Maudsley Monographs), 1998.
