Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology and Chinese Medicine - Hardcover

Hammer, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882680625 ISBN 13: 9780882680620

Publisher: Station Hill Press, 1990

Synopsis

Behind the acupuncture, herbal remedies and sophisticated diagnostics of Chinese medicine lies a "congenial system of healing that embodies unification of body and mind, spirit and matter, nature and man, philosophy and reality." In this comprehensive and ground-breaking presentation, based on long experience as physician, psychiatrist, and practitioner of Chinese medicine, Leon Hammer offers a new model for appreciating the traditional healer's effective and profound respect for individual integrity and energetic balance. Explaining, and moving beyond, the five phase (element) system, he shows that this Eastern practice is as much a spiritual science as a physical one. Accessible to the layman, yet a resource for the professional in any healing art, this book examines the natural energy functions of the human organism as a key to mental, emotional and spiritual health. It offers new insight into disease, showing how it is not merely an invasion from the outside, but rather a byproduct of a person's unsuccessful attempt to restore one's own balance.

About this title

Synopsis

The author, an M.D., is a graduate of Cornell Medical College and the William A. White Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, who studied Chinese medicine in England, China, and New York and has been practicing it for 17 years. His lucid presentation provides a new model for appreciating the traditional Chinese healer's knowledge of individual

Edition details

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882680625
• ISBN 13: 9780882680620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464