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Kate Burns, LMFT
PSYCHOTHERAPIST • MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST
The ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by Bradley Jacobs and Katherine Gundling
If you want to know what the medical establishment has to say about what's been happening in the world of Complementary and Alternative Health/Medicine, this is a good one, and it indicates a turn for the better in the field of medicine. However, if you want information specific to certain practices and approaches, and how they are applied, along with outcomes reserach supporting their validity, you won't find it here.
The Mind-Body Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Mind
by John Sarno, M.D.
Dr. Sarno was a medical pioneer (within the medical establishment) who, in 1974, published 'Pscyhogenic Backache: The Missing Dimension,' introducing the idea that the mind has a direct connection to what takes place in the body. He was on the faculty of New York University and was a professor at NYU's Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation and is now retired. His areas of focus were pain and repetitive stress injury. He wrote over 40 publications from 1967 to 1998; a list of these can be found here.
Related Terms: Complementary • Alternative • Integrative Health • Holistic • Body-Mind
Books
"I admit that thoughts influence the body... The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science..." — Albert Einstein
Articles
Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What's In A Name?
[National Institutes of Health]
One of the best and easy to read articles that clears up the confusion about what is meant by these terms and how they are in the forefront of research. Unlike other articles that list only a few of the approaches (incomplete), this list is more inclusive. I'm not sure why this article's title omitted the term 'Mind Body,' but it does assume that inclusion.
*Note: There are 57 Integrative Health programs in the U.S. and most are connecting with major medical centers. Where once there were none, now there are many.
Mind-Body Dualism: A Critique From A Health Perspective by Neeta Metha, Ph.D.
[National Center for Biotechnology Information]
An informative article, taking you through the evolving conception of the Mind-Body; from over 2,000 years ago, when there was no split between the two, through the 17th century when the Mind-Body split (Dualism) became entrenched, and up through today.
It is important to note that despite the preponderance of scientific evidence that the mind and body are one system, the medical establishment (including medical schools in the U.S., doctors' offices, and the health insurance industry) treats only the body.
Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) by I. Kirsch, G. Montgomery, and G. Sappirstein
[Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology]
A scientific article that reports the results of an outcome study showing evidence that adding Clinical Hypnosis to standard CBT psychotherapy yielded a greater improvement than at least 70% of clients receiving non-hypnotic treatments.
YouTube
Integrative Medicine
This clears it all up. Dr. Kelly McCann, M.D., in a straight-forward interview on what Integrative Health/Medicine is — the combining of Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, Mind-Body, Body-Mind, and Whole Person approaches to health and healing.
Mind-Body-Spirit
Very informative and nice to listen to Dr. David Barrows, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center. In this video, he mentions the spirit, whereas many in his field publicly do not.
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