Meaning-Full Disease: How Personal Experience and Meanings Cause and Maintain Physical Illness
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1855754630 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book is a valuable addition for those who are open to acquiring insights into mind-body interactions." (Douglas A. Drossman, MD, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Co-Director,)“Professor Broom has long been at the forefront of mind-body health issues in New Zealand and was instrumental in establishing The MindBody Trust. This very approachable book deserves to be very widely read and should be essential reading for all medical and other health practitioners, and biomedical scientists.” (Associate Profess
. Brian Broom is Adjunct Professor at the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, and leads the post-graduate program in MindBody Healthcare. His other book is Somatic Illness and the Patient’s Other Story: A Practical Integrative Mind/Body Approach to Disease for Doctors and Psychotherapists. He works as consultant physician (allergy and clinical immunology), psychotherapist,
This book is about the nature of meaning, the relationship of meaning to the body, and the way in which meaning expresses itself in our health or lack of it. In another way it is about the conjunction of mind, body, and spirit.In a more practical perspective, the message is that meaning-full disease does make sense, that we do have a sound basis for a holism that includes meaning, and that we had better sort out our models of healthcare if we want to be the sorts of clinicians and healers our patients and clients deserve.
Lewis Mehl-Madrona said Beyond Mind-Body Medicine. I'm proud to be the first to review Brian Bloom's book for Amazon.com. I met Brian in New Zealand at a conference sponsored by the Mind-Body Trust. I was excited by his presentation and expected the book to be equally enticing. I was not disappointed. Within medicine, a number of us are puzzling over how disease develops and how healing occurs. This puzzling is outside of the conventional biomedical paradigm which renders all by genetics as random events with which we should not be concerned. Brian's book helped me to see how the lang