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Dr. John Diamond is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), and is a Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine (US). He has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, basic sciences and the humanities, has lectured extensively throughout the world and is a best-selling author.
Now practicing as a Holistic Consultant, Dr. Diamond is concerned with all aspects of the totality of the sufferer. His 40 years of research and practice in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine and holistic healing, has led him to investigate many modalities which affect body, mind and spirit.
He has over many years, employed Creativity, especially the High Arts, regarding them as an essential and major component of Healing and has founded The Institute for Music and Health and The Arts-Health Institute to train those interested in learning how to use the arts as a therapeutic modality.
In his teaching, writing, lectures and private practice he draws on insights from all of his experience to provide guidelines for holistic living. His approach combines the idealistic and the practical, supplying tools each individual can use in all aspects of life, both professional and personal. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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An inspiring collection,
By Jane Raffen (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer (Paperback)
In the past, Dr. Diamond has on the whole confined himself to one major area of interest in each of his books. In the Life Energy in Music series he focuses on various aspects of music, The Healer: Heart and Hearth is concerned mainly with the role of the therapist or healer, Re-Mothering and its Experience examines the importance of our relationships with our mothers, and so on. In Facets of a Diamond, however, Dr. Diamond draws together all the aspects of his life and the experiences that make him the therapist that he is. But, more than being just an auto-biography, this book introduces us to the possibility that we are all therapists, whatever our profession or station in life. After reading this book I felt inspired to consider how my choices and decisions are determining the pattern of my own life, and how I can best develop and manifest my own philosophy day by day. I think that this is one of the most remarkable traits of Dr. Diamond's writing: that, instead of claiming to have found the one true path to enlightenment, he presents his own ideas and thought in such a way as to be a springboard for the reader's.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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What Healing is All About,
By Healthy Mother (NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer (Paperback)
Facets of a Diamond is an incredible book that looks honestly, intelligently and profoundly at the roles of healer and patient, and more importantly, at the underlying motivation of man.
Diamond looks at every aspect of an illness or life problem: spiritual, societal, motivational, dietary, energetic, psychological, environmental, hereditary... Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field, says that ""On Dr Diamond, I would say he is one of the great pioneering healers of our time. His greatest contribution (of so many) is his discovery that our emotional selves register physical weaknesses in the body and that the body's meridian points also are the seat of certain emotions. But he's also made an incredible contribution to the role of music, to the use of many herbs and substances in healing. He is, in short, a genius."
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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An Absolutely Brilliant Book,
By Jan-Piet Knijff (Fairfield University, CT USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer (Paperback)
As the title suggests, this book shows facets-many facets-of the healing work of Dr. John Diamond. It is, however, far from being just another self-help book. Diamond obviously knows what he's talking about, but what makes this book so great is that he talks about the essence of life in such a clear, direct, friendly, and sometimes even humorous way. It's very hard not to be touched by the many little poems, aphorisms, and stories in the book. Diamond discusses various aspects of healing: the "true therapist," the "patient" (but much better if the patient is a "student" who wants to learn what to do himself, rather than to be passive and let the healer do the work), creativity, aspiration, and many others. He offers deep insight in the human spirit, much of it new, although often based on centuries-old philosophies. The most wonderful part of the book to me as a musician and music teacher are the many pages (thankfully!) where Diamond speaks about music. He explains how music is such a beautiful metaphor for life, and also how music-much, much more than being mere entertainment-can really help people: "If only we all were singing-always." Everybody interested in Life should read this book.
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