Members of this listserv might well be interested in a
new book I've had published with alternative medicine pioneer Marc Micozzi, MD,
PhD. It's entitled Your Emotional Type (Healing Arts Press), and it illuminates
the way an individual's emotional biology may predispose him or her to various
kinds of chronic conditions. Further, the book explains how different
individuals will benefit from different forms of complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM), again based on their
`emotional type.'
The chronic conditions examined include allergy, asthma, chronic fatigue
syndrome, depression, hypertension, eczema, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel
syndrome, migraine, phantom pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, phantom pain,
psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and ulcer. These conditions are considered
amenable to treatment by CAM therapies such as
acupuncture, biofeedback, guided imagery, hypnosis, meditation, stress
reduction techniques, and yoga. The question is, why are some people helped by
some of these therapies, and others not? Your Emotional Type provides a
framework for answering this all-important medical conundrum.
The book is also meant to empower patients and their doctors to approach the
treatment of chronic illness from an individualized standpoint that recognizes
their own personality and style of feeling – elements not typically taken
into account by standardized medicine. The book draws especially from
intriguing "mind-body" findings in the field of
psychoneuroimmunology.
For anyone interested in the connection between personality and health,
emotional biology and chronic conditions, this book will be enlightening. An
easy 18-question quiz allows you to identify your emotional type and learn
which complementary and alternative therapies are judged most effective for the
ailments you're most susceptible to. Results are drawn from Dr. Micozzi's
thirty years of experience in the field - he is the editor of the first US textbook on CAM,
Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (now in its 4th edition).
The book's website is http://www.youremotionaltype.com
Dr. Micozzi and I invite members of the listserv to consider the potential
merits of this approach; we also welcome questions or comments that anyone may
have.
Sincerely,
Michael Jawer