The Transforming Power Of Illness

Author : William M. Kaufman Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781467814089

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The Transforming Power of Illness by William M. Kaufman Ph.D. Pdf

A powerful journey incredible value for anyone who reads this marvelous piece of work! Michael Brickman, CEO, Alternative Health Partners Inc. The readers mind and heart will be engaged and moved by the life-affirming narratives unfolding in this book. Superbly written, it is grounded in scholarly research protocol and enlivened by deep understanding. This inspired account is of value to scholars, clergy, laity, and all who wrestle with the problem of meaning. Dr. Frances Kostarelos, Professor, Anthropology and Political and Justice Studies Governors State University Can illness be a gift? It can be a part of lifes great journey. Genuine healing transcends the elimination of illness. Viewed as an opportunity to grow, we learn how to bring our lives back into balance and realize our true potential. Illness can force us to explore the meaning and purpose of our lives, and our relationships. It can lead us to examine our own mortality, what we have become, and how we wish others to remember us. It can guide us to understand how the many other events of our lives can move us into healing, While cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases have facilitated many to transform their lives, for each of us, life itselfand all our illnessescan be the great journey into healing; the greatest journey well ever take. The great transformation from an unexamined life bound by the pain of separation from others, into the awareness that ones essence connects with all others in the unity of spirit, is the gift of life. Illness can be a vehicle to get us there. All the people described in these pages took that journey. From their accounts we learn how they were transformed, and how they came to accept their illnesses as gifts.

Author : Colin D. Standish,Russell R. Standish
Publisher : Hartland Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0923309780

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God's Solution for Depression, Guilt and Mental Illness by Colin D. Standish,Russell R. Standish Pdf

The authors examine the issues of depression, conflict and frustration while addressing the perils of modern motivation, habit formation and the physical factors affecting mental health.

Author : Malynnda Johnson,Christopher J. Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000377408

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Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media by Malynnda Johnson,Christopher J. Olson Pdf

This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done. With studies that identify and analyze the characters, viewpoints, and experiences of mental illness across film and television, it considers the messages conveyed about mental illness and reflects on how the different texts reflect, reinforce, or challenge sociocultural notions regarding mental illness. Presenting chapters that explore a range of texts from film and television, covering a variety of mental health conditions, including autism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and more, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, and mental health.

Author : Lissa Rankin
Publisher : Hay House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781401939991

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Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankin Pdf

Presents evidence from medical journals that beliefs, thoughts, and feelings can cure the body and shows readers how to apply this knowledge in their own lives. -- provided by publisher.

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602245135

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Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag Pdf

Author : Daniel G. Amen
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781496438157

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The End of Mental Illness by Daniel G. Amen Pdf

Dr. Daniel Amen offers evidence-based approach to preventing and treating conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, PTSD, bipolar, and more.

Author : Thorwald Dethfefsen,Ruediger Dahlke
Publisher : Sentient+ORM
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781591813040

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The Healing Power of Illness by Thorwald Dethfefsen,Ruediger Dahlke Pdf

This classic book, long out of print in English, challenges accepted ideas of illness by suggesting it’s not an enemy to be fought. When you see your symptoms as bodily expressions of psychological or spiritual conflicts, you can use them as guides to inner work. You can respond to troubles with infection, allergies, respiration, digestion, skin, nervous system, heart and circulation, sexuality and pregnancy, even accidents, with practical actions that heal the heart and mind.

Author : Kathleen Crowley
Publisher : Procovery Inst
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0964334828

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The Power of Procovery in Healing Mental Illness by Kathleen Crowley Pdf

What if, instead of reaching backward to "recover" in the traditional sense, to a prior state of health, individuals with psychiatric diagnoses reached forward to procover, to focus on life instead of illness, to build new dreams and find new purpose? What if those who support and treat these individuals were able to easily create and support this change? In The Power of Procovery in Healing Mental Illness, Kathleen Crowley--author of the powerful first person account of healing, The Day Room, A Memoir of Madness and Mending--shows that a simple shift in focus can initiate a transformative cycle of healing. This book tells you how and why. It is complete with extensive procovery notes for consumers, family and staff. You don't have to start The Power of Procovery at the beginning; just start anywhere. You'll soon discover that procovery is within anyone's grasp. It's a path to healing built upon hope.

Author : Dennis Drotar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135666415

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Promoting Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic Childhood Illness by Dennis Drotar Pdf

Based on a conference that assembled experts in the field of pediatric compliance in chronic illness, this book presents the latest data and conceptual models of adherence to treatment and recommendations for new directions in the field. Interdisciplinary in approach, the contributors represent a broad array of disciplines, including anthropology, pediatrics, psychology, and sociology. Designed to address critical gaps in the understanding of adherence/compliance to treatment regiments for children with chronic health conditions, this book reviews: *conceptual models used to define adherence treatment and conduct research; *the influences on treatment adherence to chronic illness in children; *the impact of adherence to treatment on children's health and psychological development; *strategies of interventions to promote adherence and reduce noncompliance rates; *methodological and measurement problems in the assessment of treatment adherence; and *recommended research priorities for the measurement of adherence and applications of interventions and training in the treatment of pediatric chronic illness.

Author : Carol L. Rickard
Publisher : Well Youniversity Publications
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982101023

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Transforming Illness to Wellness by Carol L. Rickard Pdf

Living with a chronic illness doesn't exclude you from being able to have wellness! On the contrary, it makes it EVEN MORE critical that wellness be a part of your life. Transforming Illness to Wellness will provide you the 'Blueprint' and the 'Tools' to get the job done! The 'secrets' revealed in this book were once only available to people, only after they got so sick they needed treatment at the hospital. It has always been this authors mission to share these 'secrets' with the rest of the world! How do you know they'll work? Carol discovered this blueprint for wellness out of desperation 23 years ago after debilitating symptoms were derailing her own life. She believes God purposely placed her working in that first hospital so that she could make this discovery and be a messenger of hope to the rest of the world. To Living Well TODAY!

Author : David B. Agus,Kristin Loberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781451610178

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The End of Illness by David B. Agus,Kristin Loberg Pdf

Challenges popular conceptions to outline new methods for promoting wellness and longevity, arguing that traditional medicine has not been successful in treating serious illness while urging readers to embrace a systemic understanding of the body that incorporates the use of revolutionary technologies.

Author : Stephanie Potocka de Montalk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429878671

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Communicating Pain by Stephanie Potocka de Montalk Pdf

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.

Author : Cyndi Dale
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738761084

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Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness by Cyndi Dale Pdf

Free Yourself from Trauma & Chronic Health Challenges Join renowned spiritual healer Cyndi Dale as she shares groundbreaking techniques for resolving challenging energetic and spiritual issues. Trauma and pain caused by environmental, physical, psychological, electronic, and spiritual forces can have major effects on every aspect of your life. This book includes dozens of subtle-energy healing methods and five flip-to reference guides as well as personal assessment questionnaires to help you gain the power you need to heal from trauma. Within these pages, Cyndi explores her powerful spirit-to-spirit healing modality and hands-on exercises for: Working with the Six Vital Forces Aligning with Spirit Guides Awakening the Vagus Nerve Activating the Chakras Locating Hidden Inner Wounds Releasing Negative Energies Cleansing the Auric Field Harmonizing the Infra-Low Brainwave Charging with Colors Creating Love with Tones Healing Streams of Grace Achieving the Theta State Working through the Trauma of a Pandemic You will also discover the contemporary research on the effects of trauma on epigenetics, transgenerational inheritance, and mast cells. Combining insights from mainstream science, psychology, and subtle healing modalities, this book provides a truly holistic approach to recovery. One of BookAuthority.org's 19 Best Holistic eBooks to Read in 2020

Author : Dr. Hak Fai Chiu
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490895826

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Understanding Diseases of the Human Body and Spirit by Dr. Hak Fai Chiu Pdf

Understanding Diseases of the Human Body and Spirit explores the congruence between the physical and spiritual dimensions of diseases. Illnesses are caused by genetic aberrations, environmental agents, pathogenic microbes, circulatory disturbances, unregulated tumor growths or abnormal immune reactions. The author, an experienced pathologist and life-long student of the Bible, explains how correlating factors are operative in producing humankind’s spiritual infirmities. Narratives of pathological events in the body aptly illustrate and enhance understanding of scriptural teachings regarding the broken relationship of sinful humanity with God, the restoration of this relationship through salvation in Jesus Christ, the believers’ continual growth in spiritual health through the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the real hope of glorious transformation of their bodies in the hereafter. Dr. Chiu also contributes unique insights into subject matters which have engaged and troubled the minds of the sick, their loved ones, as well as theologians, pastors, bioethicists, lay-Christian workers and healthcare providers. These include the relationship between sin and disease, the perception of injustice when disease strikes (“why me?”), the significance of a person’s life-history and value-systems to the experience of disease, the meaning of the biblical promise of healing, as well as homosexuality and the Bible, and the place of miracle cures. Take better care of your health by understanding the nature of diseases. Be inspired to pursue spiritual health in Christ which transcends illnesses and death.

Author : Harley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00037825

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A Treatise on Diseases of the Liver with and Without Jaundice by Harley Pdf