Books about the Mind/Body/Spirit Connection
Reviewed by

Jan Fable, MS, LADC
Fairfield Connecticut
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The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy. Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, David. Published by Rodale, Inc., 2003. This is a fascenating account of unorthodox approaches to treating the emotional brain and mind. It is a synthisis of science, experience, and thought through wich the author presents a program he calls a permanent cure for emotional pain.


The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness. Richard Moss MD. Published by New World Library, 2007. This is an important and powerful book. Dr. Moss offers the reader a practice of conscious awareness that is very effective and can easily be incorporated into daily life. He skillfully describes how most of us humans have come to be guarded, fearful and critical beings who are trying to live an idealized version of ourselves. I personally had a number of "ah-hah!" moments during the reading of the book. If you wish to better understand awareness as the path toward becoming an authentic self, and are struggling with living in the now, this book will be an excellent aid.


Mind-Body Therapy: Methods of Ideodynamic Healing in Hypnosis. Rossi, Ernest L. and David B. Cheek. Published in paperback by W. W. Norton & Co., 1988. Don't even think about reading this one unless you're of a scientific bent. It's big, it's full of case reports, and it's fascinating and fully explains how healing happens in hypnosis. Ernest Rossi is a psychologist and David Cheek is an OB/GYN. Together they guide therapists and patients to find keys to their own health and well-being through therapeutic hypnosis.


Molecules of Emotion. Pert, Candace. Published by Scribner, 1997. Candace Pert is a neuroscientist. In this book she establishes the bio-molecular basis for our emotions in a clear and accessible way and she takes us with her on a great intellectual adventure.She offers scientific understanding of the power of our minds and our feelings to affect our health and well-being. She enables us to understand ourselves, our feelings, and the connection between our minds and our bodies in ways we could never have imagined before.

Playing the Quantum Field: How Changing Your Choices Can Change Your Life. Anderson, Brenda. Published by New World Library, 2006. The author looks at life choices through the eyes of a business person, replacing the concept of ROI, Return On Investment, with ROE, Return On Energy. She offers a differend prism through with to view life issues and choices. The book is filled with examples taken from everyday work life.


The Journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transforming the Whole Person. Geffern, MD, Jeremy R. Published by Three Rivers Press, 2000, 2006. The author is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and oncology and has more than 30 years' experience exploring the great spiritual and healing traditions of the East. Full of practical guidance, the book will help you to understand the essential aspects of conventional diagnosis, staging and treatment and make informed and intelligent choices about the most effective, safe, and reliable complementary and alternative therapies.


Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. Levine, Peter A. with Ann Frederick. Published by North Atlantic Books, 1997. Levine introduces Somatic Experiencing, an original and scientific approach to the healing of trauma. The treatment approach is rooted in an understanding of the di-directional communication between our thoughts and our physiology. Levine's premise is that the body is healer and that phychological scars of trauma are reversible if we listen to the voices of our body. Here you have a blending of evolutionary insights with pragmatic clinical practice. Levine proposes that we can move through trauma by engaging the bodily processes that should have happened, rather than merely reliving what happened. The work is exciting holds out the possibility of being able to heal trauma without the retraumating effects reliving it can produce.


WARNING: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health. Glasser, William MD. A provactive and fresh look at how psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved. Glasser creates a clear distinction between genuine mental illness and unhappiness. The hazards he warns about are: (1) being diagnosed as mentally ill when you are not; (2) treatment for that nonexistent illness, often with harmful brain drugs; and, worst of all, (3) being told that there is nothing you can do for yourself. In this book you will learn that you can, in fact, do a lot for yourself.


Your Body Believes Every Word You Say. Levine, Barbara. Published in paperback by Aslan Publishing, 1990. Watch what you say!" isn't just a phrase for the children in your life. Levine thoroughly examines the link between language and disease. She author traces how common clichés used in everyday conversation, like "that breaks my heart", and "that job is a real headache", have sabotaging influences on the unconscious mind and health of the body. She draws from her own traumatic personal experience, case histories, historical records, and recent studies by prominent researchers including Wallace Ellerbrook, M.D., Emmett Miller, M.D. and Bernie Siegel, M.D. (who contributed a chapter to this book). Every chapter offers tools and easy-to apply techniques for identifying "seedthoughts," taking positive action, and developing a sense of well-being.


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JanFable has worked as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years. She has a master's degree in counseling and is a Connecticut licensed drug and alcohol counselor. Her primary training is in Bioenergetic Analysis which deals with the whole person. She has extensive training in the treatment of dissociative disorders and trauma survivors and in using of altered states of consciousness in healing. She has also completed Level I and Level II training in Thought Field Therapy.

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