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Whole Person Healthcare [Three Volumes] [3 volumes]

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The three volumes that comprise Whole Person Healthcare are an excellent and important source of information about health and healthcare. From Volume I Humanizing Health Care with its emphasis on treatments for patient populations, to Volume II Psychology, Spirituality, and Health which shows the intimate connection between mind and body, to Volume III The Arts and Health which reveals the role of creativity in wellness, the essays are both original and thought provoking. Dr. Ilene Ava Serlin, the General Editor of these volumes has done outstanding work in bringing this often cutting-edge information to health professionals and the general public.

This very readable compilation of opinion and guidance from the most eminent practitioners and thinkers is an excellent one stop source for information and guidance for alternative approaches to healthcare.

Today in the US there is more out of pocket expenditure on alternative wellness and healing products, services and practices than on traditional medicine. This category is becoming increasingly important as baby-boomers seek to have greater control of their own health care and seek alternatives to the pharma-industrial complex.

The editor, Ilene Ava Serlin, has done a great service for the field in providing this very timely and comprehensive series. It is an excellent resource to health care providers as well as informed laypeople.

The only criticism is the price of the series and that all three volumes must be purchased together. This will inhibit its distribution, particularly to individual healthcare practitioners and laypeople. It would be preferable if individual chapters could be purchased as pdf files or podcasts; most people are interested in certain approaches and may not want all. Hopefully, the publisher will make this series more adaptable so many more people can access this wonderful work by so many dedicated professionals who contributed to the effort.

"These remarkable volumes, edited thoughtfully and vividly by Ilene Serlin, provide a comprehensive view of the full potential of healthcare in the 21st century. Many of the most important voices in alternative medicine, mental health and arts therapies are represented and all attest to the profound importance of treating human beings as fully human, in body and spirit, in mind and emotion, not only as patients, but as active and creative partners in their own healing. This is a must-read for all practitioners and students in the healing professions." Robert J. Landy, Ph.D., RDT/BCT, LCAT, Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology; Director, Drama Therapy Program, New York University

21st century healthcare will come to embrace these rich modalities of mind-body-spirit healing, too long overlooked by many in the mainstream of modern Western medicine. Speaking as an M.D., I deeply thank Dr. Ilene Serlin and her collaborators for bringing together this broad collection of resources from major figures in the field today. Many patients and clients will benefit as a result. Here is the future!