from stone age shamanism to post-industrial healing /
Richard Grossinger.
[3rd] rev. ed.
Berkeley :
North Atlantic,
1987.
xxxv, 436 pages ;
22 cm
Includes index.
Disease and cure : image and process in medicine -- The cultural basis of the holistic cure -- The origin of medicine : the anthropological and historical fallacy -- The distribution of healing complexes on the earth -- The psychosomatic dilemma in western and native thought -- Practical ethnomedicine : the ancient skills -- Spiritual ethnomedicine : the works of the shaman -- Darwinism, vitalism, new alchemy, and parapsychology -- Elements and humors -- Ancient medicine : empiricism and rationalism -- Homeopathy : the great riddle -- The principles and methodology of homeopathic medicine -- The life and work of Samuel Hahnemann -- The homeopathic tradition in America -- Sigmund Freud and the origin of psychotherapeutic healing -- Wilhelm Reich : from character analysis to cosmic eros -- Bodywork -- Healing, language, and sexuality -- The new medicine -- The political and spiritual basis of medicine -- The present state of holistic health : how to choose a healer.