Investigates the phenomenon of mindfulness as it impacts our daily lives, offering readers insight into personal relationships, emotional behaviour, parenting and work.
Psychological trauma profoundly affects the body, often disrupting normal physical functioning when left unresolved. "Trauma and the Body" provides a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma dissociation and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma. Readers are instructed in practical ...
This is a compelling blueprint for deep healing in the 21st century. Dr. Robin Kelly draws from current science and 30 years of experience in conventional medicine to show that our bodies are truly human antennae, bound together by connective tissue that acts as a conductor of information from the universe around us.
"Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volume 1" is unique in that the therapy is viewed as an art form that psychologists or anyone trained in manual therapy such as massage, chiropractic or physical therapy can use. The beginning of the book discusses various models of craniosacral therapy, and, for the first time in any book, skills are taught based ...
From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect, this vibrant history describes the commitments to mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories that have allowed people to make sense of their suffering, express discontent with existing care, and rationalize new treatments and lifestyles.
Focuses on the evidence that somatic awareness - the ability to perceive, interpret, and act upon the basis of one's own internal bodily sensations - can be a powerful tool in maintaining health and facilitating recovery from illness. This book examines the nature of somatic awareness and evaluates its clinical utility across a wide range of ...
Taoism and the use of the five elemental forces of nature for healing, says Gilles Marin, are esoteric, understandable only through daily experience with a knowledgeable mentor. Marin's 25 years of clinical practice teaching the ancient Taoist method of Chi Nei Tsang, which uses hands-on techniques and Taoist meditations to help clients heal, ...
This book is designed to provide massage therapists and bodyworkers with a greater understanding of the psychological issues that can arise from using touch in their therapy sessions. The book describes the connection between the body and the mind, how touch affects this connection, the client's emotional reaction and release, and how to respond ...
Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet will be the first title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this, the series' maiden volume, Dr. Harold G. Koenig ...
"Art Therapy and Clinical Neuroscience" offers an authoritative introductory account of the latest developments in neuroscience and its impact on art therapy theory and practice. Contributors explore the complex relationship between art and creativity and neurological functions such as stress response, immune functioning, child developmental ...
David Feinstein has composed a powerful and comprehensive interactive training program for mental health professionals who wish to integrate the insights and methods of energy psychology into their practice. Energy Psychology Interactive presents all the critical skills clinicians need. Energy Psychology Interactive is a unique, systematic, ...
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine. The ...
Does a kindly, charitable interest in others have health benefits for the agent, particularly when coupled with helping behaviours? Although the answer remains unclear, researchers have established that there is an association between generous emotions, helping behaviour, and longevity. Increasingly, emotional states and their related behaviours ...
Takes readers on a fascinating journey to the true meaning of what it is, and what it takes, to be healthy in body, mind, and spirit, and be a healer of all three human dimensions.
In Nursing and the Experience of Illness: Phenomenology in Practice, Madjar and Walton show how phenomenological thinking can benefit nursing. Phenomenology has become one of the most frequently used methods in nursing research as qualitative methods grow in popularity. But it is more than a research method; by describing real nursing encounters ...
How to optimize the use and condition of your body. Profusely illustrated and easy to read, Peak Performance gives you every opportunity to take charge of your body and mind.
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded procedural memories and imaginal fantasies. "The Placebo Response" contributes inextricably to virtually all therapeutic effects, varies ...
How does our body reveal us to ourselves? The body can inform the work we do in mental health. This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in psychotherapy and counselling. The body is viewed as integral to the mind in this book and in the ...
Since the 1980s, an explosion of scientific studies have helped to explain why our state of mind may exert such a strong influence on the state of our health. In this book, science writer Henry Dreher weighs the results of leading-edge mind-body research, and he concludes that mind and body are not merely connected, they are unified. Our minds ...
"Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach" looks at the ground-breaking work of the London based Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, a training centre recognised worldwide by professionals in the field. The book brings together Chiron trainers and therapists, describing how their integrative approach has enabled cutting-edge thinking ...
This is a collection of some of Armando B. Ferrari's writings published in Italy and in Brazil as books between 1992 and 1998. The book is closely related to the line of thought that starts with S. Freud and continues with K. Abraham, M. Klein and W.R. Bion, and it is the first attempt at creating a psychoanalytic model centred on the relationship ...
This book is the first to address what really happens behind closed doors during eating disorders treatment, as most writing has only addressed theoretical approaches and behavioral strategies. The field has long needed a book that describes the heart of the matter: the therapeutic interventions and interactions that comprise life-changing ...
How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, "The Neurophysics of Human Behavior" advances a unified theory ...
"Centered and Connected" presents body-based techniques that integrate practices of self-reflection and non-judgmental awareness in order to facilitate healing, build self-esteem, and develop a stronger connection to one's body. The book draws on specific mindfulness techniques, designed to help those who tend to neglect their personal needs or ...
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