Holism & Health

Books: Dr. Diamond’s Philosophy of Healing

Six books that outline different aspects of Dr. Diamond's unique approach to holistic health and healing.

“A World Beyond Medicine”

What is Beethoven to medicine? And the Buddha, and Shankara, and Raphael, and Blake, and Monteux, and Euripides.

“The True Psychiatrist is a Meta-Psychiatrist”

“Modern psychological science dispenses altogether with the soul. … The new psychologists have ceased to think nobly of the soul, and even speak of it as a complete superfluity.”

Video: The True Physician’s Role

The true physician's role is to ensure that the patient has a fervent desire for Life Energy, that is, they truly want to be healthy.

“Perhaps We All Die as Hedgehogs”

It is said that when drowning your whole life flashes before your eyes. If so, then at that very instant we suddenly Know why we have lived.

“Helping the Child from His Earliest Years”

“…he himself is subject to his birth” –Hamlet, I.iii.78 Especially if we enlarge “birth” to include the nine months before and the year after – the period Michel Odent calls that of Primal Health.

Audio Lecture: Holism – Analysis at the Expense of Synthesis

There are two approaches to holism: the synthetic - the building up into the whole; and its opposite, the analytic - the breaking down of the whole into its components. Most people, and society generally, tend to analysis at the expense of synthesis, a problem with ultimate roots in the mother-child relationship.

“From Inspiration to Desperation”

Without Inspiration – no Aspiration.

Video: The 3 Layers of Consciousness

Dr. Diamond eloquently shares his view of human consciousness. It consists of 3 layers: the conscious; the superficial unconscious of love and and hate; and, underneath everything, the Deep Unconscious - of pure love.

“Birthing Trauma and the Amygdala”

The major precursor of our later amygdala responses is, I believe, in the very nature of our birthing. We are an evolutionary experiment. Due to our adoption of the full upright posture, the foetal head has become bigger and the female pelvis smaller. And so to enter the world (in itself a trauma), the head and body must undergo 180 degree twist.