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Consciousness and Healing Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine

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ISBN-10: 0443068003

ISBN-13: 9780443068003

Edition: 2005

Authors: Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok, Marc S. Micozzi, IONS, Ann Ions

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 10/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Foreword: The Integral Vision of Healing
Preface: The Integral Impulse: A New Perspective for Medicine
Defining Integral Medicine Editors
Introduction
Towards a Post Modern Integral Medicine
An Integral Approach to Medicine
From Integrative to Integral Medicine: A Leap of Faith
Mapping the Healing System Editors
Introduction
Mind-Body Medicine
Mind and Mindlessness in Mind-Body Research
The Psychosomatic Network: Foundations of Mind-Body Medicine
Psychological Aspects of Mind-Body Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls from Research with Cancer Patients
New Perspectives on the Body
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: Dance as Integral Therapy and as a Healing Force
Re-Visioning Illness
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?
Honoring the Spectrum of Life
The Conflict of Biological & Cultural Imperatives
Aging with Awareness
Timeless Mind, Ageless Body
An Integral Approach to the End of Life
Consciousness Beyond Death
Healing: A Move Toward Wholeness Editor
Introduction
Psychology's Movement Toward Wholeness
Integral Psychology: Psychology of the Whole Human Being
Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
Transpersonal Images: Implications for Health
Spirituality, Religion & Healing
Etiology Recapitulates Ontology: Reflections on Restoring the Spiritual Dimension to Models of the Determinants of Health
The Practices of Essential Spirituality
Opening Your Heart: Anatomically, Emotionally, Spiritually
The Return of Prayer
Essential Capacities
A Prolegomenon to an Epidemiology of Love: Theory, Measurement, and Health Outcomes
The Art and Science of Forgiveness
Gratefulness
The Contemplative Mind in Society
Honoring Multiple Ways of Knowing Editors
Introduction
Epistemological Pluralism
The Implications of Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Science and the Scientific Process
The Technologies of Shamanic States of Consciousness
Multiple Ways of Knowing
Integrating the Wisdom of the World's Healing Systems
Restoration of Dynamic Balance: Traditional Ways of Healing Expressed through Navajo Consciousness
The Spiritual Heart of Tibetan Medicine: Its Contribution to the Modern World
Ancient Times to Present: Changing Perspectives on Healing Energy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Envisioning a New Story for Health & Healing
Editor Introduction
Transformations of Medicine
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
Socio-Political Transformations of Integral Medicine
The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and the Future of Healthcare
Sociopolitical Challenges of Integral Medicine
Healthy Earth-Healthy Human
The 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
Social Healing: Herald of a Shift in Human Consciousness
Reinventing the Human