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Healing the Mind through the Power of Story

Author : Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439701
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Healing the Mind through the Power of Story written by Lewis Mehl-Madrona and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health • Provides a critique of conventional psychiatry and a look at what mental health care could be • Includes stories used in the author’s healing practice that draw from traditional cultures around the world Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all FDA-reported trials are considered instead of just the trials published in journals. Up to 80 percent of patients with bipolar depression remain symptomatic despite conventional treatment, and 10 to 20 percent of these patients commit suicide. In Healing the Mind through the Power of Story, Dr. Mehl-Madrona shows what mental health care could be. He explains that within a narrative psychiatry model of mental illness, people are not defective, requiring drugs to “fix” them. What needs “fixing” is the ineffective stories they have internalized and succumbed to about how they should live in the world. Drawing on traditional stories from cultures around the world, Dr. Mehl-Madrona helps his patients re-story their lives. He shows how this innovative approach is actually more compatible with what we are learning about the biology of the brain and genetics than the conventional model of psychiatry. Drawing on wisdom both ancient and new, he demonstrates the power and success of narrative psychiatry to bring forth change and lasting transformation.

Coyote Wisdom

Author : Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781591430292
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Coyote Wisdom written by Lewis Mehl-Madrona and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the use of stories for healing and personal transformation. By introducing new characters and plots in the stories we tell, we can perceive ourselves in new ways. The author draws upon indigenous cultures of North America, Maori, East Africa, Mongolia, Australia, and Lapland to illustrate the healing use of stories throughout the world.

Narrative Medicine

Author : Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439507
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Narrative Medicine by : Lewis Mehl-Madrona

Download or read book Narrative Medicine written by Lewis Mehl-Madrona and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient’s own story in the healing process • Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient • Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process • Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much of what constitutes the art of healing: those elements of doctoring that go beyond the medications prescribed. The typically brief office visit leaves little time for doctors to listen to their patients, though it is in these narratives that disease is both revealed and perpetuated--and can be released and treated. Lewis Mehl-Madrona’s Narrative Medicine examines the foundations of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality. Citing numerous case histories that demonstrate the profound power of narrative in healing, the author shows how when we learn to dialogue with disease, we come to understand the power of the “story” we tell about our illness and our possibilities for better health. He shows how this approach also includes examining our relationships to our extended community to find any underlying disharmony that may need healing. Mehl-Madrona points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past and also to the present-day voices of its patients.

Power of the Mind in Health and Healing

Author : Keith R. Holden M. D.
Publisher : Keith R. Holden, M.D.
ISBN 13 : 9781535601610
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Power of the Mind in Health and Healing written by Keith R. Holden M. D. and published by Keith R. Holden, M.D.. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your mind is the most powerful thing in your control." Keith R. Holden, M.D. For centuries, man has sought to understand the mysterious link between the mind and body as it relates to health and healing. Can we really unlock the power of our minds to improve our health and heal? The answer is a resounding yes! In Power of the Mind in Health and Healing, Dr. Holden shares the latest advances in mind-body science that prove your mind's ability to positively influence your health. He explains how to use mindfulness and meditation to turn on and off genes for optimal health and how to hack the psychology of the placebo effect for self-healing. He also outlines basic functional medicine concepts for improving your health and presents powerful techniques for working with your subconscious mind to remove emotional blocks that might prevent healing. The book contains access to six Guided Meditations, each with a specific goal that is described in the book. In addition, readers have access to free online wellness Bonus Materials.

Healing Journeys: Stories of Mind, Body & Spirit

Author : Kevin Kita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983875024
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Healing Journeys: Stories of Mind, Body & Spirit written by Kevin Kita and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step ... Many people suffer from health problems that are caused by past emotional traumas or thinking patterns, but often they have no understanding of the real, underlying cause of their physical symptoms, and so no way to really begin to heal. In Healing Journeys: Stories of Mind, Body, and Spirit, Dr. Kevin Kita tells the stories of six patients and their journeys to health. Kita combines his knowledge of chiropractic with a variety of other techniques as well as his own intuition to offer us a fascinating look at the connection between our minds and our bodies. His unique story-telling style makes this much more than just a standard how-to. Beautifully illustrated by nationally-known artist Jessica Krause, it's an enjoyable and fascinating read. Praise for Healing Journeys ..". encourages the reader to take stock - and, in conjunction with that, responsibility - when seeking answers to physical ailments. Oftentimes, there are underlying issues which contribute to the severity of our physical issues. Dr. Kita's remarkable intuition and gentle manner allow those he comes in contact with to truly look themselves in the eye and confront their problems from more than one angle. The reader will gain insight in dealing with fear, anger, and criticism, among other emotions. This book is a must-read for anyone who desires to be fully healthy, both inside and out." Jeff Olson Author of The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

The Healing Heart—Families

Author : Allison M. Cox
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550923153
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Heart—Families written by Allison M. Cox and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and narratives aimed at helping families work through an array of subjects like health, illness, grief, adoption, sexual identity, and school. The Healing Heart provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in encouraging resiliency, empathy, respect, and healing. These engaging books contain stories, and narratives about the use of the stories in activities with different populations (children, teens, those with disabilities, seniors, inmates, etc.) or which address specific social or community problems (addictions, poverty, violence, racism, environmental degradation, homelessness, abuse). The books are a collective effort containing the expertise of more than 60 storytellers and health professionals who illustrate the power of story in moving others to commitment and action, in building self-esteem and mutual respect. The Healing Heart ~ Families focuses on families, dealing specifically with healing through story, health promotion, disease prevention, early childhood intervention, children with medical problems, adopting families, schools, sexual identities, grief, and spiritual healing. The Healing Heart ~ Communities focuses on community-building, with sections on youth, violence prevention, poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse and addiction, racism, elders, culture, environmental protection, homelessness, and community development. Praise for The Healing Heart ~ Families “Both children and adults, sick or well, need the embrace of soulful storytelling. They need to witness and be witnessed, for it is in this state that healing occurs . . . . If newscasters were to read aloud each night to their listeners for 1,001 nights one of the stories from this treasury, we would all be healed and lose our fear, recapturing real security in our homeland.” —N. Michael Murphy, MD, author of The Wisdom of Dying “An extraordinary work . . . . Hit the bulls eye by providing both process and practice. Thought provoking and insightful theory is intertwined with appropriate stories for direct application. It makes clear that story can be a powerful catalyst for change, giving eloquent voice to what many of us have known for some time but have been unable to express. What a gift for those who work with families!” —Elizabeth Ellis, co-author of Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking about Difficult Stories

A.D.

Author : Josh Neufeld
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378144
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A.D. written by Josh Neufeld and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the stories of seven survivors of Hurricane Katrina who tried to evacuate, protect their possessions, and save loved ones before, during, and after the flood.

Miracles of the Mind

Author : Byron Gentry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568250441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Miracles of the Mind written by Byron Gentry and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mind Over Medicine

Author : Lissa Rankin
Publisher : Hay House
ISBN 13 : 1401939996
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Mind Over Medicine written by Lissa Rankin and published by Hay House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents evidence from medical journals that beliefs, thoughts, and feelings can cure the body and shows readers how to apply this knowledge in their own lives. -- provided by publisher.

Healing from the Heart

Author : Judith Stay Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Healing from the Heart written by Judith Stay Moore and published by . This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd Edition. Healing from the Heart takes the reader through the fictional story of Anne, a chronically ill woman, who serendipidously meets a caring healer, Grandmother, who takes Anne through the steps of the mind/body/spirit connection. She illustrates these principles with simple storytelling and guided meditations, which allow Anne to find ways to harness the healing messages within. The book gives the reader opportunities at certain intervals to listen to downloadable meditations, teaching and reinforcing the power points of Grandmother's stories.

The Body Keeps the Score

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127748
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Body Keeps the Score written by Bessel A. Van der Kolk and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Narrative Psychiatry

Author : Bradley Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899796
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Psychiatry written by Bradley Lewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease. With this book, Bradley Lewis makes the challenging and compelling case that psychiatrists need to promote the significance of narrative in their practice as well. Narrative already holds a prominent place in psychiatry. Patient stories are the foundation for diagnosis and the key to managing treatment and measuring its effectiveness. Even so, psychiatry has paid scant scholarly attention to the intrinsic value of patient stories. Fortunately, the study of narrative outside psychiatry has grown exponentially in recent years, and it is now possible for psychiatry to make considerable advances in its appreciation of clinical stories. Narrative Psychiatry picks up this intellectual opportunity and develops the tools of narrative for psychiatry. Lewis explores the rise of narrative medicine and looks closely at recent narrative approaches to psychotherapy. He uses philosophic and fictional writings, such as Anton Chekhov’s play Ivanov, to develop key terms in narrative theory (plot, metaphor, character, point of view) and to understand the interpretive dimensions of clinical work. Finally, Lewis brings this material back to psychiatric practice, showing how narrative insights can be applied in psychiatric treatments—including the use of psychiatric medications. Nothing short of a call to rework the psychiatric profession, Narrative Psychiatry advocates taking the inherently narrative-centered patient-psychiatrist relationship to its logical conclusion: making the story a central aspect of treatment.

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Author : Wiremu NiaNia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315386410
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy written by Wiremu NiaNia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. In the first chapter, Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia outlines the key concepts that underpin his worldview and work. He then discusses the social, historical, and cultural context of his relationship with Allister Bush, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The main body of the book comprises chapters that each recount the story of one young person and their family’s experience of Māori healing from three or more points of view: those of the psychiatrist, the Māori healer and the young person and other family members who participated in and experienced the healing. With a foreword by Sir Mason Durie, this book is essential reading for psychologists, social workers, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, and students interested in bicultural studies.

The Healing Heart for Communities

Author : Allison M. Cox
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781550923131
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Heart for Communities written by Allison M. Cox and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Healing Heart provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in encouraging resiliency, empathy, respect, and healing. These engaging books contain stories, and narratives about the use of the stories in activities with different populations (children, teens, those with disabilities, seniors, inmates, etc.) or which address specific social or community problems (addictions, poverty, violence, racism, environmental degra-dation, homelessness, abuse). The books are a collective effort containing the expertise of more than 60 storytellers and health professionals who illustrate the power of story in moving others to commitment and action, in building self-esteem and mutual respect. The Healing Heart ~ Families focuses on families, dealing specifically with healing through story, health promotion, disease prevention, early childhood intervention, children with medical problems, adopting families, schools, sexual identities, grief, and spiritual healing. The Healing Heart ~ Communities focuses on community-building, with sections on youth, violence prevention, poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse and addiction, racism, elders, culture, environmental protection, homelessness, and community development. Allison Cox is a therapist and Prevention Specialist, in Tacoma, Washington, with 20 years experience as a professional storyteller, and is a founder of the Healing Story Alliance—part of the National Storytelling Network. David Albert is a storyteller, writer, and Senior Planner and Policy Analyst with the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, and a contributor to Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope (New Society, 2002).

The Brain's Way of Healing

Author : Norman Doidge, MD
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1925106373
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The Brain's Way of Healing written by Norman Doidge, MD and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on astonishing case studies, this is a brilliant and beautifully written follow-up to Dr Doidge’s record-breaking bestseller The Brain That Changes Itself. In his first book, Norman Doidge described the most important development in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience — what we call neuroplasticity. Now The Brain’s Way of Healing shows how this amazing discovery really works, significantly broadening the field from traumatic brain injury to all manner of diseases and conditions in which brain functioning is a factor — including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and dementia. He describes how patients have retrained their brains and learned to walk, speak, or hear, while others have reset the brain’s energy patterns and circuits to overcome or reduce chronic pain or alleviate anxiety, trauma, learning disorders, and many other impairing syndromes. As he did so lucidly in The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge presents exciting, cutting-edge science with practical real-world applications, and illustrates how anyone can apply the principles of neuroplasticity to improve their brain’s performance.

Change Your Mind, Heal Your Body

Author : Anna Parkinson
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 178028781X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Change Your Mind, Heal Your Body written by Anna Parkinson and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your body is trying to tell you what's wrong! A successful journalist-turned healer describes her innovative system of healing through the lens of her own self-healing journey. Parkinson was a busy workaholic reporter who yearned to leave her stressful job when she was diagnosed with a mysterious tumor behind her carotid artery. At first she pursued the traditional medical route, but after a series of frustrating mishaps with the medical system, she began to investigate alternative healing. Her search brought her into contact with such venerable healing philosophies as the ancient Hindu chakra and the simpler Hawaiian system. She eventually met Martin Brofman, founder of Body Mirror Healing, who taught her how to delve into her emotional blockages underpinning the illness. The breakthrough came when she realized that her body was communicating to her through the message of cancer. She ultimately developed a series of simple exercises, shared in the book, that help people better listen to their bodies and bring the energy needed to wipe away disease.

The Healing Power of Life Alignment

Author : Philippa Lubbock
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786780704
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Power of Life Alignment written by Philippa Lubbock and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to heal and claim the life destined to become yours is already within you. This is the simple but powerful message at the very heart of Life Alignment – an extraordinary system of vibrational healing that has been handed down from higher powers and other dimensions – to help you do just that. You know why you are here and how to get the life you want, you've simply forgotten that the power to change and make that happen lies with you. A Life Alignment healing session with a Life Alignment practitioner will help your body and mind remember and put you back on the road to the destiny that awaits you. In this new book, Live Your Life, Life Alignment practitioner, Philippa Lubbock, tells the incredible story of how a healing system that has been attuned for the 21st Century has been passed, in stages and quietly over 30 years, to one man – Life Alignment guru Jeff Levin. Here you will find the very latest of those teachings and a pathway back to meet and communicate with your deeper spiritual self who already has the answers and is now waiting for you to find a way to hear the inner guidance that will show you the way ahead and the path you need to take.