The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition [Hardcover]

Mona Lisa Schulz (Author), Christiane Northrup (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 2005

Ever wonder why most women can handle the kids and careers and the renovation but men can concentrate on either the newspaper or a game on TV? This is because female brains have more interconnections that allow them to multi-task and split their attention. "The New Feminine Brain" is the first book by a medical doctor, who is also a psychiatrist and a brain expert, to show how modern life challenges are physically rewiring the brain and to address the particular challenges that women face as a result. The female brain today is not your grandmother's brain - it has even more connections and skills, but with that can come more physical problems, including an increase in attention and memory deficits and chronic mood and health conditions. "The New Feminine Brain" combines the insights of Dr Schulz's research and stories of clinical experience as a neuropsychiatrist treating people with tough brain disorders with unique self-help and expert health advice. Readers will discover and cultivate their special genius and intuitive style with provocative self-tests, so they can hear and heal their depression, anxiety, attention, memory, and other brain problems. 'Rewiring' exercises, herbs and nutritional supplements will improve their physical, psychological and emotional health.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz reveals the intricate science behind women's intuition in The New Feminine Brain, and shows that while ignoring one's sixth sense can devastate the body, honoring its messages can lead to greater creativity, improved physical well-being, and joy. Coming from the pen of a board certified neuropsychiatrist, neuroscientist and medical intuitive, the topic receives just as much clinical attention as it does the breathe-out-and-tune-in type. Schulz begins with a crash course in neuropsychiatry to illustrate how the female brain's innate adaptability has caused women to literally rewire their thinking for survival in today's (man's) world. Unfortunately, the body doesn't always buy what the new feminine brain is selling. The result can mean disaster to a woman's health. Pinpointing the true source of one's physical aches, infections, diseases, and psychoses requires an honest look within.

Embracing her own Attention Deficit Disorder, Schulz zooms from rich discussions about gender brain wiring to quick patient stories, to questionnaires that help readers learn how their own brains are "wired for mood," "wired for fear," or wired for early senility. It's an interactive ride punctuated by dizzying lists, charts, and checklists that involve frequent page-flipping. Schulz point out that detailed descriptions of prescriptive medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements (complete with dosage recommendations and cautions regarding drug interaction), all include a caveat: simply medicating the body doesn't promise long-term physical and emotional health. Here, intuition must preside. Schulz responds with multiple strategies to help women nurture even the tiniest inner voice, and become their own best medical intuitives.--Liane Thomas

Review

"A thought provoking look at the differences between women and men. Can awaken women to their unique gifts and abilities. Fascinating and original."

-- Andrew Newberg, author of Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

"A must read for any woman at any age who wants to maximize her mind, mood, and memory. Highly recommended!"

-- Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., President/Medical Director, Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation; author of The Better Memory Kit --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Free Press (August 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743243064
• ISBN-13: 978-0743243063
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #569,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr Mona Lisa Schulz is one of those rare people who can cross the borders of science, medicine and mysticism. With an MD, a PhD in Brain Science, practicing Neuropsychiatrist, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Vermont School of Medicine and a medical intuitive for 25 years. Dr. Mona Lisa has published 3 books, The Intuitive Advisor, The New Feminine Brain and Awakening Intuition. She lives between Yarmouth, Maine and Franklin, Tennessee with her four cats and assorted wildlife.

In addition to her extensive background in health and brain research, Dr. Schulz has been practicing medical intuitive for 23 years. During a medical intuitive consultation, knowing only someone's name and age, Mona Lisa discerns both a person's physical condition and the emotional state of his or her life, explaining how the two are linked.

Dr. Schulz teaches us how to become aware of how our symptoms of illness are part of our intuition network, letting us know when something in our lives is out of balance. During a medical intuitive consultation, there is no physician/patient relationship, nor is any psychotherapy being performed. Mona Lisa will educate you in how specific emotional situations in your life are associated with the increased risk of illness in a specific organ in your body.

One of the many joys in Dr. Mona Lisa's life is teaching individuals how to acknowledge, trust, and develop their intuitive skills. There are a variety of ways you can connect with her.

Dr. Mona Lisa teaches live intuition training workshops, the Intuitive Advisor Tune-Up and Medical Intuition Training USA Tour starts in January 2011. Check out her Events page on www.drmonalisa.com to find out when she will be in your town! Practice, learn and laugh your way through the process of discovering your own intuition in person with Dr. Mona Lisa on her 2011 Intuitive Training tour.
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Customer Reviews

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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars women and men have needed this book for a long time!, September 3, 2005

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Jonni O'Connor "Jonni O'Connor" (Vancouver Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition (Hardcover)

Women and men have needed this book for a long time. Bravo to Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D. Ph.D., for writing it! The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius and Intuition, is actually a layman's course in neuropsychiatry in that it offers up the science that supports a full understanding of the feminine brain.

Women have always known that they are born multi-taskers, that they have a sixth sense and a great sensitivity. Through Schulz's findings we discover why: women have more connections between their hormonally sensitive right and left brains. This is their greatest asset and alas, can be their greatest downfall, leaving them vulnerable to illness and stress. Without the care that comes through nutritional needs, mental exercises and an expanded understanding, many women are allowing their brains to adapt to survive in a male-dominated world. And with that adaptation, there is less creativity, physical well-being and joy.

I loved this book. It's got it all: vitally important insight, solid clinical information, multiple strategies, and did I mention the humour? Schulz is hilarious in tone and sensitivity. If you appreciate the candor of Dr. Christianne Northrup's, The Wisdom of the Body, then you'll appreciate her dear friend Mona Lisa Schulz. You don't have to be female to read and value this optimistic book. It can change the way women and men think.

84 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for women! Amazing insights for men, too!, August 11, 2005

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A Seeker (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition (Hardcover)

Okay, I'm a guy, and I have to admit, a book about the "new" feminine brain would not be at the top of my reading list. But my girlfriend saw the author appear on CBS this morning and dashes out and gets the book. And unsuspecting fellow that I am, I pick it up in an idle moment when I get home this evening and think to myself, "Maybe this will help me understand the way my girlfriend thinks."

And it did! I have a whole newfound insight into and appreciation of the way my girlfriend thinks. Too often relationship books fall into glib clichés about the way men and women have different "communication styles" but from what Ms. Schulz shows is that it goes a whole lot deeper than that.

And she backs up everything she says with super-clear explanations of the science behind it all. There are lots of fun tests that readers can use to see for themselves how their brains work, and even nutritional advice for improving everything from your intelligence to your mood. Way cool.

Now I wish Mona Lisa Schulz would write a book for the way guys' brains work (okay, okay, I can hear my girlfriend snickering at the very notion).

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for women and men, October 6, 2005

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Simone Barrington (Oregon, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition (Hardcover)

I am a perimenopausal woman. I did not even know how much anxiety I was suffering from until I read The Feminine Brain.
Mona Lisa Schulz clearly, concisely, and with amazing medical clarity helps you understand yourself and the medical issues you are having, gives you greater unsights about others, and a much broader understanding of the human brain. If it seems like it might be too "heady" of a read, it is not. I could not put the book down I was so fascinated by the information.