Despite ever-widening media attention and public awareness of the problem, American women continue to suffer from anorexia nervosa in greater numbers than ever before. This severe psychophysiological condition-characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming obese, a persistent unwillingness to eat, and severe compulsion to lose weight-is particularly difficult to treat, often because the v...

A Biodynamic Approach to Development from Conception to Birth - This book presents an anatomical overview of the changing form and structure of the human body.

Based on the principle that traumatic stress affects the interconnecting tissues of the body by forming patterns of tension called lesions, Mechanical Link therapy has successfully treated fibromyal ...

The Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture and Moxibustion is a clinical manual for the treatment of traumatic injuries, muscle joint problems, dermatological conditions, and postoperative complaints. It has been written by Yan Cui-lan, a well-known acupuncturist specializing in external diseases from Tangshan, Hebei. Dr. Yan has written this book specifically with Western pract...

This book is a completely new, revised, and expanded edition of this work. It now includes:Many more important and useful statements of factChinese characters for every statementPinyin Romanization fo ...

In the West people commonly assume that disruptions of the body are the exclusive domain of medical intervention and that disruptions of the mind are to be addressed primarily by psychological inquiry. This work is a discussion on the integration of the principles of TCM and psychosomatics. It develops a dynamic model of health that acknowledges the connection of body and mind. This mode...

`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field... it is such a blockbuster that one can only reel backwards and tell anyone studying the subject that they would be crazy not to...

In his first new book in ten years, David Shapiro extends the stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the psychopathological. Emphasizing self-regulatory process over biological event, Shapiro's philosophy of mind goes against the current - but with authority...not to mention a built-in audience

This is the first definitive book to draw on unique, unpublished, professional expertise about the reshaping of herbal medicine in the UK. This book outlines the outcomes of recent examinations, and poses challenging questions about the direction of future herbal medicine policy within the UK.

This controversial book broadens the horizons of manual therapy to embrace adverse tension in the nervous system. Injury can impair the mobility and elasticity of the nervous system, which are both essential features of normal body movement. The author contends that the clinical consequences of altered nervous system biomechanics are unrecognised and that many disorders attributed to mus...