Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing : Self-Healing and Energy Medicine for the 21st Century

by Benor, Dr Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9780975424803
• ISBN10: 0975424807
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Atlasbooks Dist Serv

Summary

People have the potential to heal themselves and each other. Dr. Daniel Benor, a wholistic psychiatrist, explains how mind-body and body-mind interactions promote health or cause illness. Clear and concise explanations of a large body of research, clinical examples, and a variety of theory explain healing through complementary/alternative medicine. Dr. Benor reviews research-supporting claims that complementary/alternative therapies and bioenergy therapies are potent and effective treatments.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
The Four Volumes of Healing Research	8	(4)
Self-Healing	12	(146)
Psychodynamics and Psychopathology	17	(10)
Normality	27	(2)
Psychosomatic Disorders	29	(1)
The Body's Regulating Systems	30	(1)
Talking/Relational Psychotherapy	31	(4)
Physical Symptoms Addressed by Psychotherapy	35	(6)
Physical Symptoms Addressed by Bodywork and Bioenergy Therapies	41	(1)
Psychological Conditioning (Reinforcement) and Behavior Therapy	42	(3)
Research in Psychotherapy	45	(1)
Conditioning and the Immune System	45	(1)
Body-Mind Therapies and Spiritual Healing	46	(2)
Psychological Conditioning, Feedback Loops, and Spiritual Healing	48	(7)
Suggestion	55	(15)
Hypnosis	70	(18)
Biofeedback	88	(4)
Unusual Human Abilities	92	(5)
Special Brain and Body Functions	97	(11)
Brain Hemispheric Functions	108	(7)
Self-Healing Programs	115	(12)
Spontaneous Remissions of Illness	127	(4)
A Few Words in Summary about Psychotherapies	131	(1)
The Mind and the Brain	131	(3)
Transpersonal Psychotherapy	134	(20)
Collective Consciousness and Spiritual Awareness	154	(2)
Preview of an Energy Healing Model	156	(2)
Wholistic Energy Medicine	158	(237)
Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) Therapies	176	(186)
CAM Modalities (from Acupuncture to Yoga)
Problems Addressed Effectively by CAM Modalities	362	(4)
CAM Issues	366	(29)
The Human Energy Field	395	(51)
Auras	396	(16)
Kirlian Photography	412	(7)
Laboratory Measurements of Biological Energy Fields	419	(8)
Effects of Environmental EM Fields	427	(19)
Geobiological Effects	446	(37)
Cosmobiology and Astrology	472	(11)
Conclusion	483	(4)
Appendix A	487	(3)
Notes	490	(42)
References	532	(137)
Glossary	669	(12)
Names Index	681	(8)
Subject Index	689