`The author presents perspectives on healing of ancient Eastern and
Western cultures.' - Drug Link `All In all, Complementary Therapies
in Context is a good resource book about the various
non-traditional medical interventions, some over 4,000 years old.'
-Psychiatric Services `This is a detailed and comprehensive
reference text for people wanting extensive background knowledge of
complementary therapies and the background to their development. It
also includes interesting sections on the complex relationship
between eastern and western medicine; and how both have developed
and progressed within the very recent past. It would be an
invaluable text for a student writing a paper or a therapist
looking to research further into potential areas for OT
involvement.' OTPLD Newsletter `This book provides a sophisticated,
evidence-based argument for greater integration of complementary
therapies in the NHS. A review of modern and ancient forms of
healing reveal the inter-dependence of pysche and soma underlying
eastern and western healing philosophies throughout history.
Western physics has come to see the truth known to ancient
mythologies that time and energy are interdependent therapies based
on time-related stress, for example, hypnosis, meditation and
relaxation, also mobilise healing energy, while `energy'-based
therapies, for example, homeopathy and acupuncture, also change
perception of time. Modification of either of these factors has an
effect on matter, or physical being, as these are all, inextricably
inter-related.' OpenMind `This book provides a good all-round
introduction to ancient, modern, eastern and western perspectives
on healing respectively. The author shows links and similarities
where they exist, giving a useful synthesis for all students
wanting to know where and how the different traditions evolved can
be seen to fit into the larger picture. The classification of
therapeutic interventions as being those of either time or energy
is also a useful one. On time there is a good outline of the
different schools of meditation, hypnosis and relaxation, including
autogenic training and other developments. In-depth references to
the debates surrounding different approaches give useful
`ammunition' for those wishing to prove the validity of these
interventions. The chapter on visualisation is especially clear and
inspiring. On energy, there is an outline of the chakras, as well
as the story of the attempt to measure a biofield - including
Kirlian photography. Radionics, colour and sound healing are among
the other approaches covered. - This book may go a long way in
convincing a diehard sceptic that serious consideration needs to be
given to mind-body approaches and the new paradigm of health. For
those already working with this approach to healing, the book is a
very useful reference tool and provides the background with which
to move forward.' - Holistic Health In this thoroughly revised,
expanded and updated edition of the successful Time, Energy and the
Psychology of Healing, Helen Graham examines perspectives on and
approaches to healing from all over the world. She divides
treatments into `timely interventions' and `energy medicine'.
Timely interventions include biofeedback, hypnosis and meditation,
which modify the individual's relationship to time and enable
access to the unconscious. Energy medicine - acupuncture,
homeopathy, psychosomatic treatments and psychoenergetic treatments
- is concerned with the mobilization and balancing of the subtle
energies in and around the individual. Helen Graham's study also
embraces shamanism, mysticism, ancient Egyptian and Greek medicine,
Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese, Indian and Japanese medicine, yoga,
Galenism, and the divorce of psychology and medicine. She argues
that these so-called `alternative' therapies should be used in
conjunction with conventional Western medical techniques.
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