The Healer: Heart and Hearth [Paperback]

John Diamond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2000

A major statement by one of our foremost holistic healers, this deeply personal, moving and inspiring contribution takes its readers beyond the realm of medicine to a place where healing begins.

The Healer: Heart and Hearth suggests a new and wholly original understanding of the role of the healer and of the sufferer representing the culmination of Dr. John Diamond's over forty years of experience in traditional and holistic therapies. Among his other works are the best-selling books, Your Body Doesn't Lie and Life Energy.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A rare blend... an eclectic array of cultural and healing arts to address the intractable issues of the human soul." -- EastWest Journal

"Strong medicine for our troubled times - loving and wise words - not only to read but to carry with you!" -- Richard A. Lippin, M.D., Founding President, Int'l Arts

One of the world's few true Healers. -- Bryan Hubbard, What Doctors Don't Tell You

About the Author

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 (UK), and is a Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine in the U.S.

Dr. Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, basic sciences and the humanities. He is a widely respected lecturer and seminar leader and is a best-selling author.

In his 40 years of practice in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine and holistic healing, Dr. Diamond has increasingly recognized that there is within us a great healing force, Life Energy, which Hippocrates called the vis medicatrix naturae, the healing power of nature.

With his increasing involvement with this concept, his research has led him to concentrate on the enhancement of the sufferers Life Energy so as to actuate his own innate Healing Power.

As a Holistic Consultant, Dr. Diamond is concerned with all aspects of the totality of the sufferer, the interrelatedness and interdependence of the inseparable triune of Body, Mind and Spirit, how they relate and how all must be involved in every Healing process.

He has, for many years, also used Creativity to help sufferers, regarding it 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: 112 pages
• Publisher: Enhancement Books (May 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890995223
• ISBN-13: 978-1890995225
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,028,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new look at healing and therapy, June 13, 2003

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Jane Raffen (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healer: Heart and Hearth (Paperback)

In this personal and engaging book, Dr. Diamond considers the many elements that combine to produce an effective and long-lasting therapeutic relationship. Drawing on his own extensive experience as a holistic healer, Dr. Diamond discusses the role of the healer and that of the sufferer. He also looks in detail at setting up the best environment in which healing can take place.

I find Dr. Diamond's emphasis on the importance of a holistic approach to healing most valuable, and I welcome the philosophical context in which this book places that concept.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring book!, April 3, 2002

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Michael Garber "PhD, scholar of songs" (South Salem, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healer: Heart and Hearth (Paperback)

This book inspired me to have a new attitude toward my home -- and my life! It is written in a mix of prose and lovely poetry -- both of which are full of heart-warming thoughts. I also like the use of word origins to illuminate these thoughts.

5.0 out of 5 stars Heal by Discovering the Belovedness of Your Mother, March 5, 2011

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L. C. Henderson (Velddrift, South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healer: Heart and Hearth (Paperback)

At the start of The Healer: Heart and Hearth we are invited into a Sanctuary, "a holy place of refuge where you will feel safe and loved." The creator of this prose and poetry ensemble, the renowned holistic healer, Dr. John Diamond, states that it is there that we can at last become our true and deepest Self, with none other than he as our most intimate chaperon and envisioned mentor. In this prayerful and sensitively worded guide, he helps us on our spiritual journey through encouraging us to partake in strengthening visualization exercises, emphasizing that it is only on our discovery of the Belovedness of our own mothers that we can start to heal.

The Healer: Heart and Hearth is filled with Diamond's evocative and heartfelt poems, or aphorisms, most of which are no longer than five lines long. His diction is as natural and unforced as the milk that flows from the untroubled maternal breast. He eases our pain through his insight and empathy and he allows the close warmth of the relationship that he has with his reader to enable the latter to transcend the specific moment so as to become at one with the movement and eternal timeframe of the Universe. The sincerity of this esteemed wellness practitioner breaks down all of our defenses so that we feel accepted and comforted, able to aspire to become fully what we were originally intended to be.

Starting out with an exploration of what it means to him to be a holistic healer, Diamond then traces the etymology of such words as "hearth," "host," and "guest." By revealing how such words came into being and how they have come to mean what they do today, he familiarizes the reader with the world as he sees it. Not only that, but he also shows how he cuts to the core of the pivotal essence of life, so that all confusion is removed and the crux of our natural existence is laid bare.

Coming from a linguistic base, Diamond then moves on to discuss the aspirational and inspirational nature of music. The serenity and calmness of his voice is heard as a conduit by which we can aspire to explore the intensity of our own responses to our environs and beyond. Rapturously, we as readers are swayed into a state of blissful tranquility, in which we can start to heal ourselves. The wholeness of Diamond's approach transforms our twenty-first century tendency to be hypercritical of all that we read and see into a willingness to be elevated by both his poetry and his prose. Ultimately, then, we are able, without skepticism, to appreciate his idealization of the healer as standing "openhearted, arms outstretched." [Reviewer of [...]]