Consciousness & healing : integral approaches to mind-body medicine / Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok with Marc S. Micozzi.

"More than 60 contributing essayists, including: Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Dean Ornish, Candace Pert, Rachel Naomi Remen, Ken Wilber"--Cover.

Accompanied by: 1 videodisc (DVD)

Includes bibliographical references.

PART ONE: Defining integral medicine / Marilyn Schlitz -- Towards a post-modern integral medicine / Elliott S. Dacher -- An integral approach to medicine / John A. Astin and Alexander W. Astin -- From integrative to integral medicine : a leap of faith / William Benda -- PART TWO: Mapping the healing system / Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Amorok -- SECTION ONE : MIND-BODY MEDICINE -- Mind and mindlessness in mind-body research / Harris Dienstfrey -- The psychosomatic network : foundations of mind-body medicine / Candace B. Pert, Henry E. Dreher and Michael R. Ruff -- Psychological aspects of mind-body medicine : promises and pitfalls from research with cancer patients / Stephanie Simonton-Atchley and Allen C. Sherman -- SECTION TWO : NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE BODY Meaning and the history of the body : toward a postmodern medicine / David Michael Levin -- Breathing, moving, sensing, and feeling : somatics and integral medicine / Don Hanlon Johnson -- Transformational surgery : symbol, ritual, and initiation in contemporary cosmetic surgery / Loren Eskenazi -- Healing and transformation through expressive arts / Anna Halpin and Michael Samuels -- SECTION THREE: RE-VISIONING ILLNESS -- What does illness mean? / Larry Dossey -- Living with cancer : from victim to victor, the integration of mind, body, and spirit / Caryle Hirshberg -- Our evolving views of health and illness : what does it all mean? / Richard B. Miles -- SECTION FOUR: HONORING THE SPECTRUM OF LIFE -- The conflict of biological and cultural imperatives / Joseph Chilton Pearce -- Aging with awareness / Ron Valle and Mary Mohs -- Timeless mind, ageless body / Deepak Chopra -- An integral approach to the end of life / Karen Wyatt -- Consciousness beyond death? / Marilyn Schlitz -- PART THREE: Healing : a move toward wholeness / Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Amorok -- SECTION ONE: PSYCHOLOGY'S MOVEMENT TOWARD WHOLENESS -- Integral psychology : psychology of the whole human being / Bahman A. K. Shirazi -- Psychology of the future : lessons from modern consciousness research / Stanislaw Grof -- Transpersonal images : implications for health / William Braud -- SECTION TWO: SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION AND HEALING -- Etiology recapitulates ontology : reflections on restoring the spiritual dimension to models of the determinants of health / Jeff Levin -- The practices of essential spirituality / Roger Walsh -- Opening your heart : anatomically, emotionally, and spiritually / Dean Ornish -- The return of prayer / Larry Dossey -- SECTION THREE: ESSENTIAL CAPACITIES -- A prolegomenon to an epidemiology of love : theory, measurement, and health outcomes / Jeff Levin -- The art and science of forgiveness / Frederic Luskin -- Gratefulness / David Steindl-Rast -- The contemplative mind in society / Jon Kabat-Zinn -- PART FOUR: Honoring multiple ways of knowing / Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Amorok -- SECTION ONE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL PLURALISM -- The implications of alternative and complementary medicine for science and the scientific process / Marilyn Schlitz and Willis Harman -- The technologies of shamanic states of consciousness / Stanley Krippner -- Multiple ways of knowing / Frances Vaughan -- SECTION TWO: INTEGRATING THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD'S HEALING SYSTEMS -- Restoration of dynamic balance : traditional ways of healing expressed through Navajo consciousness / Nancy C. Maryboy and David H. Begay -- The spiritual heart of Tibetan medicine : its contribution to the modern world / Sogyal Rinpoche -- Changing perspectives on healing energy in traditional Chinese medicine / Garret Yount, Yifang Qian and Honglin Zhang -- PART FIVE: Envisioning a new story for health and healing / Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok and Marc S. Micozzi -- SECTION ONE: TRANSFORMATIONS OF MEDICINE -- Recapturing the soul of medicine / Rachel Naomi Remen -- Through conventional medicine to integral medicine : challenges and promises / Tom Janisse -- Transformation of the healer : the application of Ken Wilber's integral model to family practice medicine / Lawrence E. George -- Metaphysics of virtual caring communities / Jean Watson -- SECTION TWO: SOCIOPOLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF INTEGRAL MEDICINE -- The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy [WHCCAMP] and the future of health care / James S. Gordon -- Sociopolitical challenges of integral medicine / Sumedha Khanna -- SECTION THREE : HEALTHY EARTH-HEALTHY HUMAN-- The ecozoic era / Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry -- Living in the earth : ecopsychology, health, and psychotherapy / Sarah A. Conn -- Surviving the great dying / Michael Lerner -- Healing through collective consciousness : the therapeutic nature of the human/animal bond / William Benda and Rondi Lightmark -- SECTION FOUR; SOCIAL HEALING -- Social healing : Herald of a shift in human consciousness / James O'Dea -- Reinventing the human / Thomas Berry.

"Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine brings together 67 of the foremost authorities on health and healing to consider the creation of a new, integral perspective. This unique text transcends any singular approach to medicine and addresses how health professionals and patients alike are rethinking the nature of healing."--BOOK JACKET.

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