Holistic Women's Health Psychiatry
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti There is perhaps, no despair more intolerable than the struggle of a new mother. A woman who, instead of ooing and ahhing at her soft, sweet-smelling newborn, is withdrawn, apathetic, or on edge, obsessively preoccupied with all
The following excerpt is from Dr. Cowan’s book Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness, and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. In November 1890, a twenty-eight-year-old surgeon named William Coley amputated the forearm of a young woman named Bessie Dashiell. A dear friend of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Dashiell was afflicted
Dozens of meta-analyses including hundreds of antidepressant drug trials have been conducted to date. With a few notable exceptions 1 2, the vast majority of these meta-analyses conclude that antidepressant drugs are efficacious for major depressive disorder.3 4 Mainstream psychiatry constantly advises the public that antidepressant drugs work and that many more of them should
My story isn’t unique. I’m one of many millions of Americans that bought into an unproven theory that depression and anxiety are caused by unbalanced brain chemistry. After taking psych meds for sixteen years, I can honestly say I’ve given traditional psychiatry and allopathic medicine a fair opportunity to bring balance to my brain. It
Facing Our Shadow: An Essential Practice for Our Times Do you sometimes say about what you’ve just done, “I don’t know what got into me?” Do you sometimes feel like you’re being run from “behind the scenes” or are stuck on automatic? At such times, it’s very likely that your shadow is in charge. Our
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