“What a Healer Must Do”
The healer must go through the conscious and superficial unconscious layers of the sufferer...
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Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Video: Van Beinum and His Timpanist
An appreciation of the great Dutch conductor Eduard van Beinum (1901-1959) – and his remarkable timpanist. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks by John Diamond, M.D.
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“The Placebo Effect”
In clinical research, one of the most annoying problems— one may even call it a “side effect”—is that known as the placebo effect. In numerous trials of drugs for hypertension, anxiety, insomnia, or the like, it has been found that up to one-third of the test subjects achieve the same desirable effects with a physiologically inert substance as are achieved with the wondrous new miracle drugs of the research laboratory.
“Gratitude, the Gift, and the Giver”
When there is true Gratitude it is easy to give up the gift, when appropriately asked, for the gratitude is not basically for the gift but to the giver.
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Video: Brain Misprocessing
“You’re not mad, you’re not bad – it’s your neurology.” Dr. Diamond discusses the origin of our brain misprocessing, from the birthing process, and steps that can be taken to remedy it.
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“A Tribute to Dr. Louis Cholden”
Louis Cholden died at the age of thirty-eight in an automobile accident. He had been on his way to moderate a panel of the 1956 convention of the American Psychiatric Association. The loss was ours, as he would have become one of the greatest leaders in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. His writings are among the mere handful in the field that truly proclaim love.
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“The Lullaby as Gratos”
The mother's lullaby is always gratos, a song of gratitude.
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Video: Thoughts on Punctuation
Dr. Diamond shares his thoughts on punctuation and how its correct usage can help raise the Life Energy of a person’s writing.
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“The Quiet Therapist”
I was once intrigued by the title of a book, The Quiet Therapies. It led me to wonder who the quietest therapist I had ever known was. The answer was obvious. He was not a psychiatrist, nor a psychologist, nor even a doctor. He was the male nurse in charge of the psychiatry wards at a hospital in which I worked many years ago. His name was Wally Brown.
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“Underneath We Are All One”
We are only individual in what doesn’t Really Matter. For underneath our superficialities, we are all One with the Deep Unconscious of Pure Love.
