Transforming Clinical Practice Using the MindBody Approach : a Radical Integration. [E-Book]

This book assumes that it is no longer tenable to work in healthcare without considering the person as a whole being constituted by a rich weaving of mind, body, culture, family, spirit and ecology. The MindBody approach embraces this 'whole.' But how does it transform clinical practice and training for the clinician and treatment for the patient/client? The book collects together the experiences from a diverse range of clinical practitioners (including psychotherapy, specialist medicine, general practice, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, nursing, and complementary and alterna.

Print version record.

ONE. Introduction: transforming clinical practice using the MindBody approach -- TWO. The Kafka beetle goes off his food -- THREE. An intimate field -- FOUR. Bodies in conversation -- FIVE. The proof is in the pudding -- SIX. The gift of illness: inviting physical symptoms to guide personal growth -- SEVEN. Professional earthquake and aftershocks -- EIGHT. From fearing to caring: finding heart in nursing -- NINE. Touching the hurt -- TEN. Issues in the tissues -- ELEVEN. There is always "something else": phenomenological physiotherapy -- TWELVE. Whakawhanaungatanga: establishing relationships -- THIRTEEN. Making a difference: a narrative MindBody approach to school guidance counselling -- FIFTEEN. Healing through talk and touch -- SIXTEEN. Holding it all together: integrating the MindBody approach as a breast cancer patient -- SEVENTEEN. Transforming a pain clinic: using patient stories to integrate medical practice -- EIGHTEEN. Training "troops" for a MindBody revolution.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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