Healing the Mind the Natural Way [Paperback]

Pat Lazarus (Author)

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Medical writer Lazarus (Keeping Your Pet Healthy the Natural Way) offers much information on the little-known nutritional healing approach known as orthomolecular psychiatry, whose practitioners turn "holistic" medical theory inside out to heal the mind through the body. Lazarus cites studies, case histories and anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that what is ingested or breathed can have wide-ranging effects on the psyche and emotions: a young man's psychotic rages at his mother disappear when an electric range is substituted for a fume-dispersing gas one; a woman's severe depression is cured by eliminating chicken from her diet. Although she offers tips on prevention and self-care, Lazarus stresses that orthomolecular therapy is not for do-it-yourselfers?particularly in treating severe psychiatric disorders. A pedantic style and many redundancies make for slow, heavy reading. Nonetheless, Lazarus offers a unique, informative addition to consumer medical literature.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 351 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher (September 12, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874777526
• ISBN-13: 978-0874777529
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,353,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help your psychiatrist and physician probably dont know!, July 10, 1999

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[e-mail] (Columbus, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing the Mind the Natural Way (Paperback)

Orthomolecular medicine is not as widely known as it needs to be. This book is a nice introduction to the role of balancing body chemistry with nutrients and diet to achieve maximum psychological and emotional well-being. It is much more than a simple "vitamin book." Using nutrients medicinally is a science not studied by the average medical practitioner. The author draws on research and the experience of some of the leading orthomolecular MD's in the field to show the reader how standard psychiatry and medicine frequently ignore the biological underpinnings of mental illness that can stem in part from brain allergies to foods, the impact of sugar in the body, nutritional deficiences, heavy metal poisening, candidiasis, hypoglycemia, histimines, and a host of other abnormalities which can only be "cured" by addressing the actual metabolic problem and not simply masking the symptoms with psychiatric medicines. At the same time the author avoids grinding the political axe and is forthright in affirming (as are orthomolecular physicians) that psychiatric medicines are important in some cases, though incomplete, in the treatment of mental illness. Simply getting the information that Orthomolecular physicians have a way of treating chronic schizophrenia with a .05% incidence of tardive dyskinesia (n=10,000 schizophrenic patients) from neuroleptic medication is worth the price of the book for those who must take these powerful drugs. The material in this volume should be much more widely known and this book will help that happen.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars mental patients!save yourselves with this book, February 22, 2000

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eyal - newman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing the Mind the Natural Way (Paperback)

a wonderful book that explains the orthomolecular way of treating the mental illnesses, and the big diffreces to the conventional way of treating.it explain the way of thinking, treating, and aproaching the orthomolecular way in those diseases.it is a superb book on healing the mind the natural way, and i can tell you as an orthomolecularist that this book is a walking-truthful orthomolecular authority book!. i just could not find a better expression. depression,addictions, anxiety, altzheimer, and much more are explaine in the most interesting way you can ask. you must buy this book today!.