from stone age shamanism to post-industrial healing /
First Statement of Responsibility
Richard Grossinger.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
[3rd] rev. ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berkeley :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
North Atlantic,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1987.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxxv, 436 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.