| Titel: | Healing East and West: Ancient wisdom and modern psychology |
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| Autor: | Sheikh AA und Sheikh KS |
| Mediengruppe: | books |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 1989 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | --- |
| Sprache: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | (from the foreword to the paperback edition) As this century draws to a close, our nation faces the most pressing concerns in modern memory regarding health and healing. Foremost in public consciousness, of course, is the crucial question: How can health care be effectively designed and delivered in a time of conflicting financial demands? Related to this concern are questions vital to the human condition: What is the nature of the elusive healing response? Why has the development of advanced technology and improved understanding of disease only marginally improved general health over the last century? Why has the US lost its edge in health and longevity compared with other industrialized countries? How is it that anything can cure somebody and nothing cures everybody? What part do mind and spirit play in causing, exacerbating, and curing disease? And finally, are there other systems of healing beyond the standard allopathic approaches and traditional psychotherapeutic interventions that might improve the health of the nation? [This book provides answers to these questions and presents Eastern and Western perspectives on healing, medicine and modern psychology.] ; (from the foreword) As this century draws to a close, our nation faces the most pressing concerns in modern memory regarding health and healing. Foremost in public consciousness, of course, is the crucial question: How can health care be effectively designed and delivered in a time of conflicting financial demands? Related to this concern are questions vital to the human condition: What is the nature of the elusive healing response? Why has the development of advanced technology and improved understanding of disease only marginally improved general health over the last century? Why has the US lost its edge in health and longevity compared with other industrialized countries? How is it that anything can cure somebody and nothing cures everybody? What part do mind and spirit play in causing, exacerbating, and curing disease? And finally, are there other systems of healing beyond the standard allopathic approaches and traditional psychotherapeutic interventions that might improve the health of the nation? [This book provides answers to these questions and presents Eastern and Western perspectives on healing, medicine and modern psychology.] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (foreword) |