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Define Mental Health

(Excerpted from World Psychiatry, June, 2015) The concept that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness [1, 2] was unanimously endorsed, while the equivalence between mental health and well-being/ functioning was not, and

Posted on July 6, 2015
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Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Spiritist psychiatric care is described below…and it’s leading us into new territory that might improve our own healthcare system! Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil “If the spirit is not acknowledged as existing and real,

Posted on April 16, 2015
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Human Flourishing

After 21 years of private practice, Dr. Elliot Dacher, a family practice MD, began an in-depth study of the principles and practices of consciousness and health. He pursued his study researching the subtle aspects of

Posted on December 18, 2014
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4 Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry

Four Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry, aka Green Psychiatry Steven Goldsmith, a psychiatrist from Oregon is kindly allowing me to share the blogpost about why he turned away from the limitations of conventional psychiatry and turned

Posted on February 13, 2014
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Reflections on Spiritual Healing #1

More and more people are turning to spiritual healing to find relief from their pain and suffering that conventional, biologically-based medicine can not provide. In his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Paramahansa Yogananda, a self-realized

Posted on October 2, 2013
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