AIDS, a pilgrimage to healing : a guide for health professionals, clergy, educators and carers / Peter B. Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Peter B., author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Psychological aspects.

HIV infections.

Mental healing.

AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects.

Mental Healing.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Healing.

Physical Description:

x, 150 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newtown, N.S.W. : Millennium Books, David Lowell, 1992.

Summary:

This book tells of the way that those affected by HIV or AIDS can surmount their fears and win serenity even in the face of pain and loss and death. Remarkably this is a book about hope and affection and courage; it celebrates the human condition through an odyssey of discovery - realization of the divine potential of being human.

Contents:

Introduction: The miracle of wholeness

Part one: The ascent of holism. Revolutions in understanding and caring ; The origins of holism and psychosomatics ; Psychoneuroimmunology: emotions, immunity and disease

Part two: Raising consciousness. A holistic or biopsychosocial model of AIDS ; Therapies: how might we modify immunity and illness? ; A long night's journey into day: issues for therapists, counselors, clergy and carers ; Awakening meaning: the spiritual dimension of healing

Part three: AIDS and community growth. The issue of screening and the educational challenge ; Transformation: personal and collective ; Relationships: integrating sexuality and spirituality

Part four: Psychotherapy, counseling and pastoral care: activities and exercises. Relaxation, visualization, meditation and reflections for discussion ; Spiritual exercises with archetypal images and symbols

Postscript: A dream of Gerontius

Appendix: Presenting patients: what to look for and how.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-148) and index.

ISBN:

0855749024

9780855749026

OCLC:

27594951