I would like to practice true Psyche-atry.
Psyche is from the root BHES – to breathe. The Greek psukhein, to breathe gave us psukhe, soul. (The Latin halare, from the same root, gave us inhalation and exhalation – and halitosis.)
The word safety comes from the Latin salvus and it means to be healthy, whole, uninjured therefore without fear, without stress. When you feel safe, you have no fear and therefore no stress. This relates to
Katherine was breastfeeding her first baby, Alice, who was just a month old. We discovered that the baby was disappointed (stomach meridian[1]). I see so many people who are disappointed, and this may be where it
The cardiologist proclaimed that his most important role was to allay each patient’s fear of his heart – of being attacked by it.
I’ve long advised suffers to listen to their hearts – and give thanks.
Every day in my still meditation I repeat these – shall I call them prayers? May I be a clear channel for Your healing. and Help me to help You to heal. and I open my
When as a medical student I tried to study biochemistry, I became overwhelmed by the hundreds of equations and diagrams. They were so confusing because they seemed not to make broad sense. There seemed to be
Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love. But always there
Brilliantly original and deeply insightful, Twirling the Rose is one of Diamond’s most intimate and searching works.
Bill had lost twenty five pounds in weight, but, strangely, his belly seemed larger than ever. He asked me what he could do about it. My first hunch was that there was a weakness of the
The essence of psychosomatic medicine: that all the tissues and organs of the body are related to specific emotional states through the acupuncture system.
