All Sickness Is Home Sickness (Paperback)

~ Dianne M. Connelly (Author)

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...a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing. --John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon College

...eminently insightful and rewarding. --Rollo May

Dianne Connelly reminds us of what we know, a reminder of the 'home' that is within us even when we disdain it... --Colin Greer, President, New World Foundation

About the Author

Dr. Connelly is a co-founder of the Institute and has been a practitioner of traditional acupuncture since 1973. She received her Master s qualification from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (U.K.) in 1979. She obtained a Ph.D. in cross-cultural medicine from Union Graduate School in 1975, an M.A. from New York University of Education in 1968, and her B.A. from LeMoyne College in 1967. Dr. Connelly has served as a Commissioner of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She conducts workshops nationwide and lectures annually in Germany and Italy. Dr. Connelly is the author of Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements (1975), All Sickness is Homesickness (1986), and with Katharine Hancock Porter, Alive and Awake (2003). She is the mother of Blaize, Jade, and Caeli.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Tai Sophia Press, Tai Sophia Institute; 2nd Edition 1993 edition (April 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912381027
• ISBN-13: 978-0912381022
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #595,037 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing as Homecoming, June 22, 2000

By	[e-mail] (Macon, GA United States) - See all my reviews

Dianne Connelly has written a book that is informative, enlightening, and soothing to the soul. Through the seamless, almost poetic flow of her words, she conveys a profound and tender respect for the reader that in itself is a healing meditation. Acupuncture is Connelly's particular discipline, but anyone interested in bio-psycho-spiritual healing will draw great comfort from this work. She calls us back again and again to the fact that it is relationship that eases all of our ailments, and it is connection--person to person, ego to Self, psyche to body--that creates wholeness. I re-read All Sickness is Homesickness whenever I need a gentle reminder of the sacredness of my own healing vocation, and I recommend it frequently to my patients.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing as Homecoming, June 17, 2000

By	[e-mail] (Macon, GA United States) - See all my reviews

Reading this work is like reading good poetry--vivid, precise, with an economy of words and a wealth of images that bring the reader into a living conversation with the author. The book is about relationships which is are essence of healing--between patient and practitioner, between individual and symptoms, between the sacred and the mundane, and between the spirit and the body. In an era of new age "presto-change-o" approaches to holistic healing, it is refreshing to encounter a writer with such depth of knowledge and soulful expression. I recommend it to my patients often.