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Quality of Life and Persons with Intellectual Disability: Can We Measure QOL in This Population?
2011Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Flemming Struve, Isack Kandel, Hatim A Omar, Tove Kjolhede Nielsen, Joav MerrickAbstract:Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway, Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children‘s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States of America, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
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A Review of Side Effects and Adverse Events of Non-Drug Medicine (Nonpharmaceutical Complementary and Alternative Medicine): Psychotherapy, Mind-Body Medicine and Clinical Holistic Medicine
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Joav MerrickAbstract:Background: Review of side effects of psychotherapy, bodywork (without high-energy manipulations), mind-body Medicine, body-psychotherapy, sexology, clinical Holistic Medicine and complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). Method: We reviewed 857 records from a combined Medline/PubMed and PsycINFO search on “psychotherapy AND side effects” We also searched for “mind-body Medicine,” “bodywork,” “body-psychotherapy,” “clinical Holistic Medicine,” “CAM,” “sexology,” “sexological examination,” “physiotherapy,” and specific side effects like “psychosis,” “re-traumatization,” “suicide,” ”hypomania,” “depersonalisation,” “derealization” and the drugs Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD25), “psilosybin,” “mescaline,” “Peyote” and MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine (MDMA) for searches. We looked for all case reports 1950-2009 and studies that included data on side effects and negative events. Results: Non-drug Medicine did not have significant side effects (NNH (number needed to harm)> ∗The Danish Quality of Life Survey, Quality of Life Research Center and The Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, was, from 1987, supported by grants from the 1991 Pharmacy Foundation, the Goodwill-fonden, the JL-Foundation, E. Danielsen and Wife’s Foundation, Emmerick Meyer’s Trust, the Frimodt-Heineken Foundation, the Hede Nielsen Family Foundation, Petrus Andersens Fond, Wholesaler C.P. Frederiksens Study Trust, Else & Mogens WedellWedellsborg’s Foundation and IMK Almene Fond. The research in quality of life and scientific complementary and Holistic Medicine was approved by the Copenhagen Scientific Ethical Committee under the numbers (KF)V. 100.1762-90, (KF)V. 100.2123/91, (KF)V. 01-502/93, (KF)V. 01-026/97, (KF)V. 01-162/97, (KF)V. 01-198/97, and further correspondence. We declare no conflicts of interest. Please send correspondence to Soren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, MSc, Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; tel: +45-33-141113; fax: +45-33-141123; e-mail: ventegodt@livskvalitet.org. 18,000) and the only severe side effect was rare, brief reactive psychosis, a temporary illness with full recovery (NNH >65,000). Non-drug therapy did not significantly cause re-traumatization, implanted memories, or induction of suicide (NNH>100,000). The most intensive psychotherapy enhanced with psychotropic (hallucinogenic) drugs had serious, but rare side effects and only for the mentally ill, psychiatric patients: brief reactive psychosis (NNH=556), suicide attempts (NNH=833), and suicide (NNH=2,500). Conclusions: Non-drug (non-pharmaceutical) Medicine seems to be safe even for seriously physically and mentally ill patients and, whenever efficient, therefore recommended as treatment of
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Formal errors in non-pharmaceutical Medicine (CAM): clinical Medicine, mind-body Medicine, body-psychotherapy, Holistic Medicine, clinical Holistic Medicine and sexology.
International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.
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formal errors in non pharmaceutical Medicine cam clinical Medicine mind body Medicine body psychotherapy Holistic Medicine clinical Holistic Medicine and sexology
International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.
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similia similibus curentur in nonpharmaceutical Medicine the use of hippocrates healing principle of similarity in clinical Holistic Medicine controlled violence and sexual abuse in Holistic mind body Medicine
International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009Co-Authors: Tove Kjolhede Nielsen, Soren Ventegodt, Line Frederiksen, Joav MerrickAbstract:Hippocrates induced healing (salutogenesis) with t he "principle of similarity" - like cures like. The similarity principle has been used in the Holistic mind-body Medicine develo ped by the Swedish physician Bengt Stern, which recently has been found highly efficient in improving quality of life and normaliz ing sense of coherence (estimated NNT=2) without any side effects or adverse events. Stern's therapy mimics the most difficult e vents in life during role-plays. His unique therape utic program, "Meet yourself", takes the participant through the most difficult as pects of life, including birth, death, and neurotic and evil human interactions, also of violent and sexual nature. About 4000 patients have now been trough the "fascist exercise" without get ting side effects or adverse events (NNH > 4000). This exercise includes the methods of controlled sexual and psychological abuse ( level 8 in tools of clinical Holistic Medicine). Since Freud it has been known t hat to rehabilitate a patient's health the healing of the patient's sexuality is particularly important. In his therapy Stern has do ne what Freud could not do for moral reasons hundred years ago: Making the full, painful drama of early life happen again for patien ts to heal not only their physical, mental disorder s and sexual dysfunctions, but their whole life and existence. The therapeutic pro gram is evaluated and found to be ethical and in ac cordance with the healing principles and traditions of Holistic Medicine. The healing principles of CAM are used. Stern's "Meet yourself" course is an effective, nonpharmaceutical Medicine that does not cause any harm without side effects or adverse events.
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Quality of Life and Persons with Intellectual Disability: Can We Measure QOL in This Population?
2011Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Flemming Struve, Isack Kandel, Hatim A Omar, Tove Kjolhede Nielsen, Joav MerrickAbstract:Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway, Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children‘s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States of America, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
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A Review of Side Effects and Adverse Events of Non-Drug Medicine (Nonpharmaceutical Complementary and Alternative Medicine): Psychotherapy, Mind-Body Medicine and Clinical Holistic Medicine
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Joav MerrickAbstract:Background: Review of side effects of psychotherapy, bodywork (without high-energy manipulations), mind-body Medicine, body-psychotherapy, sexology, clinical Holistic Medicine and complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). Method: We reviewed 857 records from a combined Medline/PubMed and PsycINFO search on “psychotherapy AND side effects” We also searched for “mind-body Medicine,” “bodywork,” “body-psychotherapy,” “clinical Holistic Medicine,” “CAM,” “sexology,” “sexological examination,” “physiotherapy,” and specific side effects like “psychosis,” “re-traumatization,” “suicide,” ”hypomania,” “depersonalisation,” “derealization” and the drugs Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD25), “psilosybin,” “mescaline,” “Peyote” and MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine (MDMA) for searches. We looked for all case reports 1950-2009 and studies that included data on side effects and negative events. Results: Non-drug Medicine did not have significant side effects (NNH (number needed to harm)> ∗The Danish Quality of Life Survey, Quality of Life Research Center and The Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, was, from 1987, supported by grants from the 1991 Pharmacy Foundation, the Goodwill-fonden, the JL-Foundation, E. Danielsen and Wife’s Foundation, Emmerick Meyer’s Trust, the Frimodt-Heineken Foundation, the Hede Nielsen Family Foundation, Petrus Andersens Fond, Wholesaler C.P. Frederiksens Study Trust, Else & Mogens WedellWedellsborg’s Foundation and IMK Almene Fond. The research in quality of life and scientific complementary and Holistic Medicine was approved by the Copenhagen Scientific Ethical Committee under the numbers (KF)V. 100.1762-90, (KF)V. 100.2123/91, (KF)V. 01-502/93, (KF)V. 01-026/97, (KF)V. 01-162/97, (KF)V. 01-198/97, and further correspondence. We declare no conflicts of interest. Please send correspondence to Soren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, MSc, Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; tel: +45-33-141113; fax: +45-33-141123; e-mail: ventegodt@livskvalitet.org. 18,000) and the only severe side effect was rare, brief reactive psychosis, a temporary illness with full recovery (NNH >65,000). Non-drug therapy did not significantly cause re-traumatization, implanted memories, or induction of suicide (NNH>100,000). The most intensive psychotherapy enhanced with psychotropic (hallucinogenic) drugs had serious, but rare side effects and only for the mentally ill, psychiatric patients: brief reactive psychosis (NNH=556), suicide attempts (NNH=833), and suicide (NNH=2,500). Conclusions: Non-drug (non-pharmaceutical) Medicine seems to be safe even for seriously physically and mentally ill patients and, whenever efficient, therefore recommended as treatment of
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Formal errors in non-pharmaceutical Medicine (CAM): clinical Medicine, mind-body Medicine, body-psychotherapy, Holistic Medicine, clinical Holistic Medicine and sexology.
International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.
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formal errors in non pharmaceutical Medicine cam clinical Medicine mind body Medicine body psychotherapy Holistic Medicine clinical Holistic Medicine and sexology
International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.
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similia similibus curentur in nonpharmaceutical Medicine the use of hippocrates healing principle of similarity in clinical Holistic Medicine controlled violence and sexual abuse in Holistic mind body Medicine
International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009Co-Authors: Tove Kjolhede Nielsen, Soren Ventegodt, Line Frederiksen, Joav MerrickAbstract:Hippocrates induced healing (salutogenesis) with t he "principle of similarity" - like cures like. The similarity principle has been used in the Holistic mind-body Medicine develo ped by the Swedish physician Bengt Stern, which recently has been found highly efficient in improving quality of life and normaliz ing sense of coherence (estimated NNT=2) without any side effects or adverse events. Stern's therapy mimics the most difficult e vents in life during role-plays. His unique therape utic program, "Meet yourself", takes the participant through the most difficult as pects of life, including birth, death, and neurotic and evil human interactions, also of violent and sexual nature. About 4000 patients have now been trough the "fascist exercise" without get ting side effects or adverse events (NNH > 4000). This exercise includes the methods of controlled sexual and psychological abuse ( level 8 in tools of clinical Holistic Medicine). Since Freud it has been known t hat to rehabilitate a patient's health the healing of the patient's sexuality is particularly important. In his therapy Stern has do ne what Freud could not do for moral reasons hundred years ago: Making the full, painful drama of early life happen again for patien ts to heal not only their physical, mental disorder s and sexual dysfunctions, but their whole life and existence. The therapeutic pro gram is evaluated and found to be ethical and in ac cordance with the healing principles and traditions of Holistic Medicine. The healing principles of CAM are used. Stern's "Meet yourself" course is an effective, nonpharmaceutical Medicine that does not cause any harm without side effects or adverse events.
Isack Kandel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Quality of Life and Persons with Intellectual Disability: Can We Measure QOL in This Population?
2011Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Flemming Struve, Isack Kandel, Hatim A Omar, Tove Kjolhede Nielsen, Joav MerrickAbstract:Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway, Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children‘s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States of America, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
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Formal errors in non-pharmaceutical Medicine (CAM): clinical Medicine, mind-body Medicine, body-psychotherapy, Holistic Medicine, clinical Holistic Medicine and sexology.
International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.
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formal errors in non pharmaceutical Medicine cam clinical Medicine mind body Medicine body psychotherapy Holistic Medicine clinical Holistic Medicine and sexology
International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: avoiding the Freudian trap of sexual transference and countertransference in psychodynamic therapy.
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2008Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:Sexual transference and countertransference can make therapy slow and inefficient when libidinous gratification becomes more important for both the patient and the therapist than real therapeutic progress. Sexual transference is normal when working with a patient's repressed sexuality, but the therapeutic rule of not touching often hinders the integration of sexual traumas, as this needs physical holding. So the patient is often left with sexual, Oedipal energies projected onto the therapist as an “idealized father” figure. The strong and lasting sexual desire for the therapist without any healing taking place can prolong therapy for many years, as it often does in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. We call this problem “Freud's Trap”. Freud used intimate bodywork, such as massage, in the beginning of his career, but stopped, presumably for moral and political reasons. In the tradition of psychoanalysis, touch is therefore not allowed. Recent research in clinical Holistic Medicine (CHM), salutogenesis, and sexual healing has shown that touch and bodywork (an integral part of Medicine since Hippocrates) are as important for healing as conversational therapy. CHM allows the patient to regress spontaneously to early sexual and emotional traumas, and to heal the deep wounds on body, soul, and sexual character from arrested psychosexual development. CHM treats sexuality in therapy more as the patient’s internal affair (i.e., energy work) and less as a thing going on between the patient and the therapist (i.e., transference). This accelerates healing, and reduces sexual transference and the need for mourning at the end of therapy.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine (Mindful Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Complimented with Bodywork) in the Treatment of Schizophrenia (ICD10-F20/DSM-IV Code 295) and Other Psychotic Mental Diseases
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2007Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:Clinical Holistic Medicine (CHM) has developed into a system that can also be helpful with mentally ill patients. CHM therapy supports the patient through a series of emotionally challenging, existential, and healing crises. The patient’s sense of coherence and mental health can be recovered through the process of feeling old repressed emotions, understanding life and self, and finally letting go of negative beliefs and delusions. The Bleuler's triple condition of autism, disturbed thoughts, and disturbed emotions that characterizes the schizophrenic patient can be understood as arising from the early defense of splitting, caused by negative learning from painful childhood traumas that made the patient lose sense of coherence and withdraw from social contact. Self-insight gained through the therapy can allow the patients to take their bodily, mental, and spiritual talents into use. At the end of therapy, the patients are once again living a life of quality centered on their life mission and they relate to other people in a way that systematically creates value. There are a number of challenges meeting the therapist who works with schizophrenic and psychotic patients, from the potential risk of experiencing a patient's violence, to the obligation to contain the most difficult and embarrassing of feelings when the emotional and often also sexual content of the patient’s unconsciousness becomes explicit. There is a long, well-established tradition for treating schizophrenia with psychodynamic therapy, and we have found that the combination of bodywork and psychotherapy can enhance and accelerate the therapy and might improve the treatment rate further.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: developing from asthma, allergy, and eczema.
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2004Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav MerrickAbstract:This paper shows how consciousness-based Holistic Medicine can be used in the case of asthma, allergy, and eczema. We have many fine drugs to relieve patients from the worst of these symptoms, where many children and adults suffer health problems related to hyper-reactivity of the immune system. Many symptoms remain throughout life because the drugs do not cure the allergy and allergy today is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness. The etiology of the immune disturbances is mostly unknown from a biomedical perspective. Consciousness-based Holistic Medicine could therefore be used to treat these diseases if the patient is willing to confront hidden existential pain, is motivated to work hard, and is dedicated to improve quality of life, quality of working life, and personal relationships. Improving quality of life is not always an easy job for the patient, but it can be done with coaching from the physician. An increased physical health is often observed after only a few sessions with a physician skilled in using Holistic medical tools and able to coach the patient successfully through a few weeks of dedicated homework. Children with allergy and asthma can also be helped if their parents are able to do work on personal development, to improve the general quality of life in the family and their relationship with the child.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: metastatic cancer.
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2004Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, Elin Solheim, Mads E. Saunte, Joav MerrickAbstract:We believe that the consciousness-based/Holistic medical toolbox has a serious additional offer to cancer patients and, as a consequence, designed a treatment for the patient with metastasized cancer. From a Holistic perspective, cancer can be understood as a simple disturbance of the cells, arising from the tissue holding on to a trauma with strong emotional content. This is called "a blockage", where the function of the cells is allocated from their original function in the tissue to a function of holding emotions. We hope to be able not only to improve the quality of life, but also to improve survival and in some cases even induce spontaneous remission of the metastasized cancer. This paper describes how work with a patient with metastasized cancer can be done in the Holistic clinical practice in 14 days on an individual basis, helping the patient to recover her human character, purpose of life, coherence, and will to live, thus improving quality of life and possibly also survival time. The Holistic therapeutic work includes (1) teaching existential theory, (2) working with life perspective and philosophy of life, (3) helping the patient to acknowledge the state of the disease and the feelings connected to it, and finally (4) getting the patient into the Holistic state of healing: (a) feeling old repressed emotions, (b) understanding why she got sick from a Holistic point of view, and finally (c) letting go of the negative beliefs and decisions that made her sick according to the Holistic theory of nongenetic diseases. The theory of the human character, the quality of life theories, the Holistic theory of cancer, the Holistic process theory of healing, the theory of (Antonovsky) coherence, and the life mission theory are the most important theories for the patient to find hope and mobilize the will to fight the cancer and survive. The patient went through the following phases: (1) finding the purpose of life and hidden resources; (2) confronting denial; (3) taking responsibility for being very ill; (4) severe existential crises with no wish to live while still fighting; (5) integration of many repressed feelings and negative decisions thus rehabilitating character; (6) confronting lack of intimacy and trust in others and this way rehabilitating the ability to love; (7) rehabilitating the will to live, breaking through and falling in love with life; (8) assuming responsibility for the social relations; and sometimes (9) quality of life is improved radically with indications of spontaneous remission of the liver tumors.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Treatment of Physical Health Problems Without a Known Cause, Exemplified by Hypertension and Tinnitus
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2004Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, Joav MerrickAbstract:In the medical clinic, we often face health problems that have no known cause, even after a thorough examination. BioMedicine is often unable to find a cure in these situations, leaving the problem unsolved or leaving the patient on a palliative pharmaceutical cure, which is often for a lifetime. In this case, consciousness-based, Holistic Medicine could be an alternative. Using the theories and tools of Holistic Medicine wisely, the physician can often provide treatment for the patient. The toolbox of Holistic Medicine makes it possible to work on everybody because there is always something related to the patients quality of life that can be improved: his love, his purpose of life, and the way he uses his talents, his mind, his feelings, his body, and his sexuality. For treatment in Holistic Medicine, it really does not matter as much that you cannot give the patient a precise medical diagnosis, because you can always work on the patient with the intention of healing his or her whole life and existence. It is quite a paradox that many of these diseases can be understood on the level of the individual patient at the same moment that the patient is cured; many of these diseases seem to be clearly related to the repression of the individual character, as stressed already by Hippocrates. So if you simply start working with the patient to help him confront old existential pain and coach him in his personal development of his life by intensifying its meaning and purpose, the symptoms very often simply disappear. The toolbox of Holistic Medicine also seems relevant to even difficult, neurotic, psychosomatic, and hypochondriac patients. Believing in the treatment and not giving up on your patient, and moving forward in the treatment with the patient himself is the ultimate goal, even when you yourself do not understand the mechanism fully. This will force you to develop your own competence and is, in essence, what makes an outstanding Holistic physician.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Adolescent Medicine
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2004Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick, Joseph Press, Daniel T. L. ShekAbstract:The Holistic medical approach seems to be efficient and can also be used in adolescent Medicine. Supporting the teenager to grow and develop is extremely important in order to prevent many of the problems they can carry into adulthood. The simple consciousness-based, Holistic Medicine — giving love, winning trust, giving holding, and getting permission to help the patient feel, understand, and let go of negative beliefs — is easy for the physician interested in this kind of practice and it requires little previous training for the physician to be able to care for his/her patient. A deeper insight into the principles of Holistic treatment and a thorough understanding of our fellow human beings are making it work even better. Holistic Medicine is not a miracle cure, but rather a means by which the empathic physician can support the patient in improving his/her future life in respect to quality of life, health, and functional capacity — through coaching the patient to work on him/herself in a hard and disciplined manner. When the patient is young, this work is so much easier. During our lifetime, we have several emotional traumas arranged in the subconscious mind with the smallest at the top, and it is normal for the person to work on a large number of traumatic events that have been processed to varying degrees. Some traumas have been acknowledged, some are still being explored by the person, and yet others are still preconscious, which can be seen for example in the form of muscle tension. Sometimes the young dysfunctional patient carries severe traumas of a violent or sexual nature, but the physician skilled in the Holistic medical toolbox can help the patient on his/her way to an excellent quality of life, full self-expression, a love and sex life, and a realization of his/her talents — all that a young patient is typically dreaming about. BioMedicine is not necessary or even recommended when the physical or mental symptoms are caused by disturbances in the personal development that can be corrected with love and understanding. If possible, bioMedicine must be avoided, even if this means suffering for the young person, who needs to confront the tough realities of life in order to grow into an able and sound adult.
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Treatment of Children
TheScientificWorldJournal, 2004Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Gideon Vardi, Joav MerrickAbstract:We believe a Holistic approach to problems in childhood and adolescence will benefit the child, adolescent, and the whole family. As a rule, children have far less to say in the family than their parents. Therefore, it is the parents who set the agenda and decide how things are done at home and in relation to the child. Most often, it is also the parents who have a problem when the child is not thriving. The child thus acts as the thermometer of the family. When children are not feeling well or are sick, the parents are not doing well either. Most problems arising from dysfunctional patterns are almost impossible for the parents to solve on their own, but with help and support from the Holistically oriented physician, we believe that many problems can be discovered and solved. Not only can health problems be addressed, but also problems of poor thriving in the family in general. With the physician in the role of a coach, the family can be provided with relevant exercises that will change the patterns of dysfunction. Consciousness-based Medicine also seems to be efficient with children and adolescents, who are much more sensitive to the psychosocial dimensions than adults. Five needs seem to be essential for the thriving and health of the child: attention, respect, love, acceptance (touch), and acknowledgment. The physician should be able to see if the child lacks fulfillment in one or more of these needs, and he can then demonstrate to the parents how these needs should be handled. This should be followed by simple instructions and exercises for the parents in the spirit of coaching. This approach is especially relevant when the child is chronically ill.
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An overview of Holistic Medicine and complementary and alternative Medicine for the prevention and treatment of BPH, prostatitis, and prostate cancer.
World journal of urology, 2002Co-Authors: Mark W. McclureAbstract:An accumulating body of scientific evidence supports the notion that a Holistic outlook on health and life and complementary and alternative Medicine health practices can promote wellness and prevent and treat prostate disease. This overview explores some of the fundamental philosophical, diagnostic, and therapeutic differences between conventional and Holistic Medicine, and discusses how to integrate evidence-based complementary and alternative Medicine, Holistic Medicine, and conventional Medicine for the prevention and treatment of prostate disease.