Holistic Medicine

Holistic Medicine/Healing attempts to blend the best aspects of conventional medicine and surgery with ancient and recent practices focused on health and healing. Utilizing a synthesis of any number of healing approaches, holistic physicians and healers attempt to understand and work with their patients' physical, emotional, spiritual and psychosocial needs.

Treatments may range from a few simple procedures or dietary changes to complex life transforming processes. For patients, developing a deeper sense of self-responsibility through cooperative relationships with their healers helps further their healing process.

Suggested Reading:
Spontaneous Healing; Natural Health, Natural Medicine;
   and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health—Andrew Weil, M.D.
Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can; Anatomy of Spirit;
   and Creation of Health(w/Norman Shealy)—Caroline Myss
How to Live Between Office Visits; Peace, Love and Healing;
   and Love, Medicine and Miracles—Bernie Siegel
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; Perfect Health; and Healing—Deepak Chopra
Meaning & Medicine and Prayer is Good Medicine—Larry Dossey
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind—Joan Borysenko