Citing dozens of studies, and written from the perspective of many different specialties, this new book collects the best wisdom of our culture into a series of short essays that illuminate the essence of healing. The Heart of Healing (www.NewHealer.com) assembles some of the most well-known and respected names in healing, including Dean Ornish, M.D., Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Andrew Weil, M.D., Bernie Siegel, M.D., and many more.
What elements in healing can a cancer surgeon, a Pomo Indian medicine man, a psychic healer and a Rabbi all agree on? While there are hundreds of approaches to wellness, almost every healthcare professional now recognizes the need for compassion, optimism, faith, and human contact as a powerful catalyst for heath.
Citing dozens of studies, and written from the perspective of many different specialties, this new book collects the best wisdom of our culture into a series of short essays that illuminate the essence of healing. The Heart of Healing (Elite Books, September 2004, www.NewHealer.com) assembles some of the most well-known and respected names in healing, including Dean Ornish, M.D., Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Andrew Weil, M.D., Bernie Siegel, M.D., Deepak Chopra, M.D., and Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D., author of Woman as Healer. It also introduces a host of new voices including theologian Andrew Vidich, Ph.D. (Theocentric Medicine), and Bob Dozor, M.D., a family doctor imaginatively battling to sustain his integrated treatment clinic in the midst of a medical system dominated by HMOs and drug companies.
More than thirty professionals speak from their hearts about their most profound insights about healing. They passionately insist on the need to see human beings as a whole system of spirit, mind, heart and body, and point out that a therapeutic intervention on any level will affect the whole. They stress the urgency of bringing human values such as touch, emotional intimacy, respect and humility back into the medical model. Yet many of them are scientists, and respect for science, research and objective study permeates the book. The editor of The Heart of Healing, award-winning writer Dawson Church says, "Half of the authors in this book are medical doctors, M.D.s. When I edited a similar book fifteen years ago, only a quarter were M.D.s. Ideas that were radical back then have entered the mainstream. I predict that they are in the process of becoming the mainstream."
More information and sample chapters available at http://www.NewHealer.com
- Dean Ornish, Love As Healer
- Andrew Weil, Can Spirituality Heal?
- Jeanne Achterberg, The Healing Web of Human Relationships
- Andrew Vidich, Theocentric Medicine
- Bernie Siegel, Understand Why
The Heart of Healing (ISBN 0-972028-3-9)
Publication Date: September 2004
Editor: Dawson Church
Consumer availability: Barnes & Noble, Borders and other booksellers, mid-September 2004.
For free review copy, please contact: Sandrine Weinstein, Sandrine@Authorspublishing.com
Additional information and sample chapters available at http://www.NewHealer.com
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