Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer [Paperback]

John Diamond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2003

This self-healing manual is more than just another self-help or "cure-of-the-month" book.

To really heal yourself, you will need to look at yourself, at your life, at your suffering, from many different points of view -- and deeply from each of them. To build up a total holistic picture -- more, a three-dimensional sculpture of exactly who you have become at this moment in your life. To see yourself accurately and truly, from all perspectives.

Editorial Reviews

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A fascinating collection ... I thank Diamond for his courage and honesty in sharing his life, wisdom and experience with us. -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., Love, Medicine & Miracles, Prescriptions for Living

A magnificent piece of work! The material in this book will contribute to the health of anyone who reads it." -- Carolyn Myss, Ph.D., Author of Anatomy of the Spirit

A pearl of a writer, and in the sheer comprehensiveness of one man's soul lies all our health. -- Jay Bail, The Book Reader

About the Author

JOHN DIAMOND, M.D D.P.M., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., M.R.C. Psych., F.I.A.P.M., D.I.B.A.K.

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: Enhancement Books (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890995177
• ISBN-13: 978-1890995171
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,167,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. John Diamond graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1957 and was awarded his Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1962. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, American Holistic Medical Association, a Diplomate of the International College of Applied Kinesiology and is a Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. He is an Honorary Advisor to the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation and their Japanese sister organization, the Koushikai Foundation.

One of the foremost senior holistic healers, Dr. Diamond's remarkable body of work, which includes his discovery of the link between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions, embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of over fifty years of research and clinical practice. He began his career in psychiatry but expanded into holistic medicine, concentrating on the totality of the sufferer. In his fifty years of practice, he has increasingly recognized that there is within us a great healing force, Life Energy, the healing power within. With his increasing involvement with this concept, his research has led him to concentrate on the enhancement of the sufferer's Life Energy so as to actuate his own innate Healing Power.

Dr. Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, the basic sciences and the humanities, and is a widely recognized bestselling author of over twenty books, including "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Your Emotions to Achieve Well-Being," "The Diamond Color Meditation," "Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer" and numerous books on music and healing. He has a large international following, and his books have been translated into a number of languages including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese and Greek. Most recently "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy" and his newly released "The Diamond Color Meditation" have become available in Russian.

Dr. Diamond lectures and teaches throughout the world and has presented over 1000 seminars, lectures and presentations to numerous medical associations, dental associations and societies as well as other professional organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has conducted seminars in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bologna, Tokyo, and London over the past four years.

Dr. Diamond now practices as a Holistic Consultant and blends his experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities, holism, applied kinesiology, acupuncture theory, spirituality and the arts to help sufferers overcome problems relating to body, mind and spirit. He has also used Creativity for many years, regarding it as an essential and major component of healing, and has founded The Institute for Music and Health and The Institute for Life Energy and Creativity to train those interested in learning how to use the arts as a therapeutic modality. He resides in New York.

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring collection, June 13, 2003

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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:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Healing is All About, August 30, 2004

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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:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolutely Brilliant Book, May 24, 2003

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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.