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I am so pleased to have read the article Transforming Medicines
By Charles
Elder, MD, MPH, FACP; Cheryl Ritenbaugh, PhD, MPH, in The Permanente Journal, Summer 2007
/ Volume 11, No. 3 < http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/SUM07/medicines.html>.
I
strongly
encourage
you
to
read
the
article
in
entirety,
as every
aspect of it is vitalizing and enlightening.
This article gives me hope for a new
frontier in CAM research and for the possibility of eventually
extending some CAM benefits into the realm of allopathic care. To
entice you to read this amazing editorial, below are some aspects
addressed by Dr. Elder and Dr. Ritenbaugh.
- individuals being treated with some Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (CAM) interventions "may experience and value nonspecific,
whole-person, or transformational changes as essential components of the
healing process."
- These benefits may "go beyond the narrow biomedical markers
we are accustomed to measuring."
- patients of two
studies share spontaneous reflections of transformational experiences
- eloquent descriptions
of the healing power of nature, tenets of naturopathic medicine
- an excellent and integral sub-article: "Whole Systems
Research: An Evolving Paradigm for Studying CAM interventions"
- details of participation in a collaborative project (funded by the
CAM branch of the NIH, involving U.S. and Canadian institutions) to develop, evaluate, and implement a
"questionnaire tool for use in CAM and other biomedical research
to quantitatively measure whole-person outcomes, including
transformational change."
Six Pillars of Energy
Medicine: Clinical Strengths of a Complementary Paradigm
by David Feinstein, Ph.D., and Donna Eden
< http://www.innersource.net/em/publishedarticlescat/283-sixpillarsofem.html>
- In their abstract, Feinstein and Eden state, "six properties of energy medicine give it
strengths that could augment conventional health care models."
- This article explains with clarity and scientific
specificity the six properties. It is documented with 96 notes and
concludes with an example research question for each pillar,
encouraging the scientific community to develop studies which provide
empirical evidence regarding the strengths of energy interventions
incorporated into mainstream healthcare.
- As one who has benefited greatly from energy medicine, I
hope the research will be pursued. In the meantime, for those who seek
scientific explanations regarding energy medicine, this article is well
worth careful examination.
pre-publication papers
related to acupoint stimulation (including TAT and other modalities)
- Modulating Gene
Expression through Psychotherapy: The Contribution of Non-Invasive
Somatic Interventions by David Feinstein, Ph.D. and Dawson
Church, Ph.D.
<http://www.energypsyched.com/gene-expression/EP_and_Gene_Expression5.pdf>
This paper addresses how incorporating somatic interventions,
especially acupoint stimulation (such as TAT and other forms of energy
psychology) may increase speed and power (effectiveness) of treatment.
Paper scheduled for publication in Review
of
General
Psychology, a journal of the
American Psychological Association <http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/>,
which
holds
the
copyright.
This
article
may
not
exactly
replicate the
final version published in the APA journal. It is not the “copy of
record.”
- Rapid
Treatment of PTSD: Why Psychological Exposure with Acupoint Tapping May
Be Effective by David Feinstein, Ph.D. <http://www.energypsyched.com/mechanisms.pdf>
Paper scheduled for publication in Psychotherapy:
Theory,
Research,
Practice,
Training., a journal of the American
Psychological Association <http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/>,
which
holds
the
copyright.
The
article
may
not
exactly
replicate the
final version published in the APA journal. It is not the “copy of
record.”
This epigenetics article suggests that influencing expression of genes
is the center of modern medicine. At first that could sound a little
scary, until we read Bruce Lipton's work on genes. Links to Lipton's
articles on my site: < http://www.compassions-doorway.com/about_TAT.html>.
Epigenetics
at the Epicenter of Modern Medicine, by Andrew P. Feinberg, MD,
MPH in JAMA, March 19,
2008;299(11):1345-1350.
abstract: < http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/299/11/1345>
full text: < http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/299/11/1345>
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