By Saberi Roy
The Psychology of Empathy
Describing empathy and delineating the stages of empathy along with the theoretical and therapeutic implications
By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
NICABM and MInd-Body Medicine
I reflect upon the contributions of the National Institute for the Clinical Advancement of Mind-Body Medicine toward furthering the field. At their upcoming conference this December, prominent are newer ideas of neuroplasticity and chronic pain. Through the understanding that pain circuitry in the brain are remodeled by the experience of pain so as to make people feel more pain, we can refute old ideas of pain.
By Judith Acosta
The Inevitability of Healing: Verbal First Aidâ„¢ for Recovery from Surgery and Illness
What this means is that the images we hold in our minds, the beliefs we store in the deepest part of ourselves impact the way we heal in an immediate and palpable manner, not only on how we feel emotionally, but on how our cells behave, whether they adapt and grow or become inflexible and decay.
By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Walking with Dementia
Unexpectedly I find myself visiting a friend for the weekend who is helping his mother place his father into a long-term care facility. My friend's father has vascular dementia, the result of a series of strokes, each one of which rendering him progressively less capable. Nevertheless, we have a marvelous walk in which he demonstrates the unassailable curiousity of human beings for describing the motivations of others.
By Joan Brunwasser
Documentary film OPERATION: Emotional Freedom offers "The Answer" for treating veterans with PTSD
This is the first feature-length documentary on energy psychology and along with featuring many of the preeminent practitioners in EP including Gary Craig, the founder of EFT and Carol Look, PhD the film is being sold and shown worldwide in over 30 countries. On July 21st the film was included in a presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
By Dr. Clare Albright
Have You Been Told that Your Pain is All in Your Head?
This article discusses how the brain can store the message of pain after an injury has already healed in the body.
By Jon Rhodes
So What Is Hypnosis?
This article attempts to explain what hypnosis is.
By Dr. Kathleen Albertson, L. Ac., PhD
Recent Outbreaks of Whooping Cough Reported: Acupuncture and Herbal Treatment -
Whooping cough (pertussis) is an opportunistic infection that affects the lungs. Outbreaks occur every three to four years and are seriously affect children.
By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Psychiatrists in Community Mental Health
This article explores the role of the psychiatrist in community mental health. I find myself working in this setting and realizing that almost everyone sees my role as the writing of prescriptions. Medication has become the core of community mental health with twice monthly, 25 minute "therapy" visits. I ask how psychiatrists working in such settings can push back. How can we reclaim psychiatry as the medicine of the soul?
By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Why can't the sundance feeling last all year long?
I reflect on my experience of coming out of sundance, which is always a powerful, personally transformative experience for me and those others with whom I dance. Because of its deep embodiedness, sundance is simultaneously mental, physical, spiritual and communal. This and the prayers brought to sundance and the examples provided by the dancers of transcending our physical limits, explains in part the amazing healings seen.