Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine : Basic Philosophy and Ethics of Traditional Hippocratic Medicine

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ventegodt, Søren.

Contributor:

Merrick, Joav.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Textbooks.

Holistic medicine--Textbooks.

Mind and body--Textbooks.

Local Subjects:

Health--Textbooks.

Holistic medicine--Textbooks.

Mind and body--Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2012.

Summary:

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through mobilising of inner resources. This can never harm and will almost always benefit the patient's well-being and often also help him or her to fight back the disease. The cure is very much the same for all patients: Help to know yourself better and to step into character and be more yourself, and more in tune with the universe. So it can be started right away, also without a specific diagnosis. Is modern, holistic medicine powerful? Oh yes, very much so. Holistic medicine is a truly powerful medicine, in spite of nobody really understanding the deepest structures of consciousness, the connection between mind and body, and the way holistic medicine works. But just because our scientific understanding admittedly still is limited we should not stop doing what we know works. In this book the authors cover the basic principles of philosophy and ethics of traditional Hippocratic medicine from a new and modern scientific approach.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

References

Section 1. Positive philosophy of life

Chapter I

Some errors, problems and difficulties in scientific holistic medicine

Errors in holistic medicine

Errors regarding the principle of resources (healing happens in surplus of resources)

Errors regarding the principle of similarity

Errors regarding the principle of using as little force as possible ("Primum non nocere" or "first do no harm")

Errors regarding the hering's law of cure (that you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill)

Evidence-based holistic medicine

The holistic approach in practice

or the helicopter perspective

Getting started - start today

Exercises

Chapter II

The holistic theory of healing

Three stages of holistic healing

Case story

The holistic state of healing: being in process

The holistic process of healing the existence

Conclusion

Chapter III

Introduction to positive

philosophy of life

Sparks of life

Philosophy behind quality of life

Chapter IV

Quality of life, happiness

and meaning of life

Starting to wonder

Your innermost dreams about life

Our map of reality

A philosophy of life with focus

on the human being

Taking responsibility for your life

Quality of life is more than satisfaction

Happiness and the fulfillment of needs

Self-realization

The meaning of life

Conclusion on the core of life

Chapter V

What is a human being?

A young woman is off to a dance

Love and making dreams come true

The dialogue between living cells

A self is born

The relationship with oneself

Doing the right thing

Wisdom and life compency.

The first, second and third class of life

Conflict between our sexual, spiritual

and middle-class lives

Chapter VI

Understanding the biological connection between quality of life, disease and healing

Matter, life and consciousness

Problems in understanding reality

DNA only explains very little of life

DNA and illness

What is life?

The flow of information in living matter

The levels of life

From information to love

From biology to soul, heart and intuition

Quality of life and the biological order

Quality of life and illness

Our love for life

Chapter VII

The brain and consciousness

The beginning of the era of large

humanoid brains

The brain is mysterious

The structure of the brain

View of the physiology of the brain

The brain is not a computer

The order of our reason and intuition

The mystery of awareness

Night dreams - a window of the soul

The world is modeled

on the patterns of the brain

The brain creates order through

a hierarchy of concepts

Conclusion on the brain and reality

Chapter VIII

Seizing the meaning of life

How do you fight for your life?

Being ill and wanting to become well again

Take responsibility

Joy of life

Becoming more energetic

Illness, symbols and mysticism

To take responsibility and move barriers

Becoming self-confident and wise

To use death as a mirror

When you have only 700 days left

To pull yourself up

To find the quality of life

To seize the meaning of life

What is the purpose of your life?

The pain of knowing the meaning of your life

The no man's land between your old

and your new life

Discussion

Selected readings for the patients

References.

Chapter IX

The concepts of quality of life research

A hierachy of concepts

The fundamental concepts related

to the quality of life concept

Existence

Creation of the world

States of being

Daily living

Talents

Relations

Sex

Health

Personal development

Therapy

Chapter X

Theories of human existence

Understanding human existence

To realize your life purpose

Holistic process

Our hope

Chapter XI

A theory for a consciousness

based medicine

The theory

Applying the theory

Chapter XII

Life purpose and the ego

The rise and the structure of the ego

The process of salutogenesis

A case story

Another case study

Chapter XIII

What is talent?

Expression of talent

The three core dimensions of human existence

1. Purpose

2. Power

3. Gender

Working with the gender-axis

Chapter XIV

Child development

Loss of health, coping and quality

of life in childhood

The need for holding

Self-modification in response

to lack of holding

Reversing the destructive modifications

of personality in children

A clinical example

Chapter XV

The evil side of man

(the shadow or anti-self)

Self and anti-self, life purpose

and anti-purpose

The creation of the anti-self

("the shadow")

The anatomy of the shadow

An example: from "i am good" to "i am evil"

What makes man choose evil?

The dynamic of the shadow

The four existential positions

1. The unconscious, opportunistic position.

2. The half-conscious, ethical (or good) position

3. The half-conscious, evil position

4. The conscious learning position

Relevance of the existential therapy

Chapter XVI

The human character

Character in existential philosophy

Character in medicine: Understanding Hippocrates, Hahnemann and the Native American medicine

The holistic process of healing

The structure of human character

and the purpose of life

The 7-ray theory of consciousness

The seven rays in different cultures

The description of the human character

Identifying human character in the clinic

Recovering human character

in the holistic clinic

Case study

Chapter XVII

Existential coherence

A theorectial framework for existential (antonosky) coherence

Personal development and existential healing

Theory of existential coherence

and other related theories

Chapter XVIII

Reflections on how to improve

a patient's philosophy of life

Making philosophy of life more positive

Section 2. Ethics

Chapter XIX

Ethics and holistic healthcare practice

Definitions and importance of ethics

Vision and aims

Key ethical principles for holistic practice

Aims of holistic practice

Ethical guidelines

Ethics and quality of care

Acknowledgments

Exercise

Chapter XX

Medical ethics and therapeutic dilemmas in the sexology clinic

Ethical problems in sexuality

When is sex harmful?

What is the damage from sexual traumas?

How are we harmed by sexual traumas?

What is sexual healing?

Vulnerable teenagers and prostitution.

Ethical problems of sexological therapy

and cam-bodywork

The use of holistic medicine, CAM and bodywork in Denmark

Sexological manual therapy

Psychodynamic perspectives on sexuality and sexual development

Ethical problems of sexual

physician-patient relationships

Chapter XXI

Integrative ethical theory

Holistic medicine and ethics

Sexual issues in clinical practice

The use of ethics

A timeline strategy for integrating ethics

An ethical theory based on the

theory of existence

A strategy for coaching

Case study one

Case study two

Therapeutic behaviour in clinical

holistic medicine

Example one: A patient physically

abused as a child

The "rule of integrative ethics"

Example 2: A cancer patient

in existential trouble

Example 3: holistic sexology: Healing a sexually abused woman using "acceptance through touch"

Section 3. Acknowledgments

Chapter XXII

About the authors

Chapter XXIII

International review board

Chapter XXIV

About the Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen, Denmark

Quality of Life Research Center

at the university medical center

Independent Quality of Life Research Center

New research

Quality of life of 10,000 Danes

Collaborations across borders

Contact Person

Chapter XXV

About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Mission

Service and academic activities

Research activities

National collaborations

International collaborations

Targets

Contact

Section 4: Index

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-62257-707-8