Innovative Holistic Approaches to PTSD and Life Stress: Path to Success and Freedom [Paperback]

Hemant Thakur M.D. (Author), Randall Barnett (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 2010

This book is based upon studies of people who faced traumatic events and numerous problems and despite experiencing horrible traumatic events they continue to live holistically successful lives. Learn step-by-step approach to an innovative system to deal with any traumatic or stressful event or life problems while improving health holistically. People from all walks of lives have said the tools from this book if taught in every school around the world it will help to create happy, peaceful, healthy societies with abundance for humans. The tools taught in this book if used consistently can help to improve emotional and physical health of millions people cutting down health care cost by billions of dollars. It shows individual person as well as societies how to empower ourselves at personal, community and national level with the step by step process to create emotional health, peace, joy and abundance in life while decreasing the current violence and wars in the world.

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About the Author

Dr. Hemant Thakur is a medical doctor, assistant clinical professor, and specialist in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. As a board-certified psychiatrist with specialized training in psychosomatic medicine, he has worked in various mental health settings, including alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs. Dr. Thakur is a colonel in the United States Army Reserve and director of PTSD Program for more than fourteen years. He also worked for more than two decades with the Veterans Administration. After years of treating people whose lives were in ruins, he saw that traditional psychiatric treatments, including drug therapies, were not always effective. It was then that he began to identify common themes and simple methods that could successfully change behavior, solve problems, and minimize stress. Dr. Thakur has lectured extensively on his holistic treatments in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Born in Bombay, India, Dr. Thakur immigrated to the USA in 1981. He is married with two children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (January 3, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439238707
• ISBN-13: 978-1439238707
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Effective Means for Treating PTSD, May 21, 2010

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James M. Lewis (Grandview, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innovative Holistic Approaches to PTSD and Life Stress: Path to Success and Freedom (Paperback)

The practice of medicine, and its embodiment in the clinical encounter between a patient and a physician, is fundamentally a moral activity that arises from the imperative to care for patients and to alleviate suffering.

Within the patient-physician relationship, a physician is ethically required to use sound medical judgment, holding the best interests of the patient as paramount.

The book Innovative Holistic Approaches to PTSD and Life Stress, exemplifies Dr. Thakur's effort to fulfill his obligation as an ethically sound physician. The applications described in this book works to relieve the patient of acute episodes of PTSD and offer a suggestion to the patient for self-help remedies.

The principals here should be adopted by the APA as a relief formula for Mental Stress'.

Vietnam Veteran

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative approaches for understanding and reducing PTSD symptoms, December 28, 2010

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Charlotte McCloskey "Charlotte McCloskey" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Innovative Holistic Approaches to PTSD and Life Stress: Path to Success and Freedom (Paperback)

I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Hemant Thakur and have seen the information presented in this book put into practice. The information provided in this text approaches recovery efforts from a holistic model. Dr. Thakur addresses PTSD and stress recovery by looking at not only the cognitions that occur with anxiety disorders, but also behavioral and physical effects of long term stress. As a psychologist, I can appreciate that Dr. Thakur approaches stress reduction through a positive psychology lens as well as implementing cognitive behavioral therapy to help alter stress reactions to emotional triggers. He also addresses physical health and behavioral changes that contribute to stress reduction and overall well being. Dr. Thakur has made this book very understandable for practitioners and persons seeking recovery, and provides information that is motivating for change. The text describes in detail how to develop tools and implement changes in daily life for stress reduction. Individuals who want to take greater charge of their goals for mental and physical well being will find this book informative and supportive. I recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn more about anxiety disorders and how to become more active in their recovery process.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Road to Harmony, July 8, 2010

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This review is from: Innovative Holistic Approaches to PTSD and Life Stress: Path to Success and Freedom (Paperback)

Dr. Hemant Thakur believes we can change the world for the better. This book is a roadmap for an individual to take control of their life using techniques developed treating combat veterans for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He shows how to create peace, harmony and abundance for you then sends you to aid humanity and complete your own development. He is a human spirt with faith that we can change the world for the benefit of all. I am among the hundreds of combat veterans that use his teachings to gain internal peace and reconnect with society positively. The path to success and freedom as well as the methods to find and walk "The Good Red Road" is mapped in this book.