scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Health: Advanced Tools for Holistic Medicine

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 84-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Birgitte Clausen ◽  
May Lyck Nielsen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Health ◽  
Holistic Medicine

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Health: Advanced Tools for Holistic Medicine

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2048-2065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Birgitte Clausen ◽  
May Lyck Nielsen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Patient Will ◽  
Medical Theory ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Many

According to holistic medical theory, the patient will heal when old painful moments, the traumatic events of life that are often called “gestalts”, are integrated in the present “now”. The advanced holistic physician’s expanded toolbox has many different tools to induce this healing, some that are more dangerous and potentially traumatic than others. The more intense the therapeutic technique, the more emotional energy will be released and contained in the session, but the higher also is the risk for the therapist to lose control of the session and lose the patient to his or her own dark side. To avoid harming the patient must be the highest priority in holistic existential therapy, making sufficient education and training an issue of highest importance. The concept of “stepping up” the therapy by using more and more “dramatic” methods to get access to repressed emotions and events has led us to a “therapeutic staircase” with ten steps: (1) establishing the relationship; (2) establishing intimacy, trust, and confidentiality; (3) giving support and holding; (4) taking the patient into the process of physical, emotional, and mental healing; (5) social healing of being in the family; (6) spiritual healing — returning to the abstract wholeness of the soul; (7) healing the informational layer of the body; (8) healing the three fundamental dimensions of existence: love, power, and sexuality in a direct way using, among other techniques, “controlled violence” and “acupressure through the vagina”; (9) mind-expanding and consciousness-transformative techniques like psychotropic drugs; and (10) techniques transgressing the patient's borders and, therefore, often traumatizing (for instance, the use of force against the will of the patient).We believe that the systematic use of the staircase will greatly improve the power and efficiency of holistic medicine for the patient and we invite a broad cooperation in scientifically testing the efficiency of the advanced holistic medical toolbox on the many chronic patients in need of a cure. The level-8 tools can traumatize the patient if used incorrectly. Some of the level 9 tools and most of the level-10 tools can be severely traumatising for the patient, even when used correctly, so there must be compelling reasons for using them, and the patient must know, understand, and accept the risk before the onset of treatment.

The Holistic Alternative to Scientific Medicine: History and Analysis

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard S. Berliner ◽  
J. Warren Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Care Delivery ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Present System ◽  
Scientific Medicine ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Medicine History ◽  
Consumer Dissatisfaction ◽  
The Relationship

The resurgence of the holistic health movement in the 1970s can be in part attributed to increasing consumer dissatisfaction with the present system of medical care delivery. This article traces the rise and decline of modern medicine by analyzing the assumption of hegemony by scientific medicine and its practitioners. Then it describes the challenges that holistic medicine's theories and therapies currently pose to scientific medicine's organizational form and practical content. Holistic medicine is assessed in terms of its organizational and conceptual basis, and the relationship between holistic medicine and the needs of advanced capitalist society is discussed.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Dean Ornish Program (“Opening the Heart”) in Cardiovascular Disease

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1977-1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Efrat Merrick ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Health ◽  
Exercise Stress ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Complex Treatment ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Heart Patients ◽  
Medical Theory ◽  
Whole Foods

Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California has created an intensive holistic treatment for coronary heart patients with improved diet (low fat, whole foods, plant based), exercise, stress management, and social support that has proven to be efficient. In this paper, we analyze the rationale behind his cure in relation to contemporary holistic medical theory. In spite of a complex treatment program, the principles seem to be simple and in accordance with holistic medical theories, like the Antonovsky concept of rehabilitating the sense of coherence and the life mission theory for holistic medicine. We believe there is a need for the allocation of resources for further research into the aspects of holistic health and its methods, where positive and significant results have been proven and reproduced at several sites.

scholarly journals Holistic Medicine: Holistic, Humanistic and Musical

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Health ◽  
Holistic Medicine

Since technical treatment of holistic medicine lands it in an odd “specific holism,” this paper considers holistic medicine in holistic humanistic way. This paper shows that holistic health as necessary is incoherent, and so holistic medicine is impossible; such indispensable impossibility calls us to music. First, the paper explains holistic medicine as indispensable against separatist specialties (A), and then (B) elucidates holistic medicine as incoherent, and (C) takes such oddity as a wakeup call. Finally, we realize (D) this call as a call to living music that we are.

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

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