Whole Person Health Care

Introduced by two giants in the field of medicine, David Spiegel, M.D., of Stanford University and Dean Ornish, M.D., at the University of California, these volumes show how Western and non-Western healing practices--including yoga, meditation, QiGong, art, music, and dance therapy--are being integrated with modern Western medicine and psychology, in hospitals and at nontraditional healthcare facilities. Breaking research on this growing field is featured, as are observations by healthcare professionals who say the new approaches are helping patients--and also helping professionals rediscover their ancient role as healers. Each focused, practical chapter includes a Tool Kit for Change, summarizing major treatment points from a particular perspective. Examples of training templates, funded programs, and treatment protocols are included. Prevention and lifestyle are addressed, as are cures.

Ilene Ava Serlin, Set Editor, is a Clinical Psychologist and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin County. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past President of the Division of Humanistic Psychology and served on the APA's Presidential Task Force on Whole Person Psychology. She is Founder of the Arts Medicine Program at the Institute of Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center. Serlin has taught at Saybrook Graduate School, at the University of California, Los Angeles, at Lesley University, and abroad. She is on the Editorial Boards ofPsycCritiques, American Journal of Dance Therapy, and The Journal of Humanistic Psychology.