Eric Leskowitz MD

Eric (Rick) Leskowitz MD was a psychiatrist with the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH) in Boston for over 25 years, where he founded the hospital’s Integrative Medicine Project. He has an appointment to the Harvard Medical School’s Osher Research Institute, and has organized several HMS-sponsored conferences on integrative medicine in rehabilitation.

His clinical work focused on integrating such holistic therapies as meditation, hypnosis and energy psychology into a multidisciplinary pain management program, and he has a particular interest in the biofield model of phantom limb pain. He has edited three textbooks – Transpersonal Hypnosis (2000), Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation (2002) and Sports, Energy and Consciousness: Awakening Human Potential through Sport (2014), and published over 50 research articles. His documentary film on group energies in sports, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention, was broadcast nationally on PBS in 2012. He also has a longstanding interest in earth energies and global consciousness as catalysts for social transformation.