Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • April 25, 2019

    As my concern is with the universal anguish of the human condition, I no longer employ the modalities of medicine, but those of the Spirit.

  • April 23, 2019

    Dr. Diamond discusses whether the nature of man is inherently good or evil.

    See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

  • April 21, 2019

    Many years ago I was in Osaka walking through a crowded and bustling underground multi-level shopping complex at the central railway station. My Japanese friend pointed to a little juice bar with tables set out in the middle of the mall. He said, “I have to do something by myself. Why don’t you have a juice

  • April 18, 2019

    The healer must go through the conscious and superficial unconscious layers of the sufferer...

  • April 16, 2019

    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.

    See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

  • April 14, 2019

    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

  • April 11, 2019

    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.

  • April 9, 2019

    “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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  • April 7, 2019

    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.

  • April 4, 2019

    The mother's lullaby is always gratos, a song of gratitude.