Healing Body, Mind and Spirit: An Integrative Medicine Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders [Paperback]

Carolyn Coker Ross MD MPH (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 27, 2007

"Dr. Carolyn Ross has written a book that many have been waiting for. Alternative treatments are increasingly being used in all areas of medicine and psychology and eating disorders are no different. Dr. Ross describes how alternative treatments can be used with eating disorders and how alternative and traditional treatments can be combined. This book is a good addition to anyone's eating disorder library whether lay or professional."

Carolyn Costin, LMFT

Founder and Executive Director of The Monte Nido Treatment Center and its affiliates

Author: The Eating Disorder Sourcebook

Healing Body, Mind and Spirit goes beyond the conventional treatment of eating disorders and speaks to the transformative potential of tapping into a deeper level of healing. Integrative medicine takes into account the whole person - body, mind and spirit and uses both conventional therapies and complementary approaches to awaken the individual's own self-healing potential. The integrative medicine approach to treating eating disorders developed by the author goes beyond the understanding that eating disorders can be described by their biological, physiological and genetic basis. Healing Body, Mind and Spirit examines the emotional underpinnings, core beliefs and the deeper urges of the soul yearning for expression in those who suffer from these life-threatening conditions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Outskirts Press (June 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1432701916
• ISBN-13: 978-1432701918
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

About Dr. Carolyn Ross
Born in Houston, Texas, Dr. Carolyn Ross spent her childhood in San Antonio where as the oldest of five children, she comes from a long line of physicians and healers. Her mother's father was a well-known physician in Bryan, Texas who opened his own hospital and nursing school. His mother, Betty Love, was a Cherokee medicine woman.

She wanted to be a doctor since she was nine years old and has worked many summers and vacations in her grandfather's office, going with him on house calls, helping him deliver babies and learning how to dispense medications in his office pharmacy.

Dr. Ross completed her undergraduate degree in Modern Foreign Languages at Purdue University and worked as a full-time mother of her two older sons before returning to school to complete her Pre-Med requirements. She then went to the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Ross's practice experience after medical school helped fuel her interest in understanding what makes people heal as she saw that most of her patients' medical problems were related to lifestyle habits and the stresses of modern living. In searching for a better way to address these issues, Dr. Ross began to explore complementary and alternative therapies and the use of herbs and supplements for her patients. She then completed a residency in Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University and then set up practice in San Diego, California where she eventually opened three womens' centers where she practiced primary care and office gynecology. Her womens' centers integrated the best of western medicine with complementary and alternative therapies such as yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic and nutrition counseling. She developed and ran a weight management program that offered a holistic approach to treating obesity. During that time, she also served as the medical director of The Rader Institute's inpatient eating disorder program.

Dr Ross's own personal health crisis and the diagnosis of her mother with Alzheimer's led her on a journey to healing in which her perspective about medicine changed and her desire to focus on integrative medicine led her to the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Ross completed a two-year fellowship in Integrative Medicine, studying with Dr. Andrew Weil. Her path then led her to work as the head of the Eating Disorders Program and the Integrative Medicine Department at world-renowned inpatient hospital, Sierra Tucson where she pioneered the Integrative Medicine approach to eating disorders. She currently works in private practice in Colorado and as a consultant for treatment centers across the country on eating disorders and integrative medicine.

Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross is a mother of three sons and has one granddaughter. She is also a nationally known author, speaker and expert in the field of Eating Disorders and Integrative Medicine. Her most recent book is "Healing Body, Mind and Spirit: an Integrative Medicine approach to the treatment of eating disorders." Her next book "The Overcoming Binge Eating Disorder and Compulsive Overeating Workbook" is due to be published in 2009. Dr. Ross has also developed a line of supplements as a result of her research, which is designed to support the recovery of patients with eating disorders and obesity.

For more information, please visit www.carolynrossmd.com.