Paradox and Healing: Medicine, Mythology and Transformation - Softcover

Michael T. Greenwood; Peter J. Nunn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096958220X ISBN 13: 9780969582205

Publisher: New Century Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book takes a look at the problem of chronic illness and chronic pain and offers new insight into their origins, their meaning in our lives and the very real opportunity they present for our profound and far-reaching healing. Chronic conditions are by definition those which do not respond to our treatment of them. And because we cannot cure them, these intractable problems can offer an opportunity to both doctors and patients to re-examine the whole approach to sickness, pain and disease commonly taken by our society.

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About the Author

Dr. Michael Greenwood - MA, MB, BCHIR, FCFP, CAFCI, FAAMA, FRSA Michael Greenwood trained at St. John's College, Cambridge, and St. Mary's Hospital, London, and practiced Family Medicine in Victoria for many years. Michael's explorations into alternative approaches led him to study Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and meditation before they became generally fashionable. In 1993, Michael gave up his Family Practice to devote his time to people suffering from chronic pain and other chronic illnesses. Currently, in addition to his medical practice, he teaches East-West Medicine at Pacific Rim College. Dr. Peter Nunn - MB, FRCS, FRSC(C) Peter Nunn was born in London England and trained at the London Hospital Medical College. He emigrated to Canada and settled in Creston BC, where he began a successful orthopedic and general surgical practice. While in Creston he started to look at what was caled Alternative Medicine. He set up an acupuncture clinic one afternoon a week, while continuing his surgical practice. During the next 10 years, Peter studied many other disciplines, including Chinest Medicine, craniosacral therapy, and experiential counseling. He and Michael Greenwood began working together in 1985 to find new ways to provide relief to whiplash patients. He retired from full time practice in 2005, but continues to work part time.

Review

Paradox & Healing takes us beyond our usual concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, joy and suffering, pain and pleasure, love and hate and shows us that the true healing must involve a joyful reconciliation with, and a lively coexistence of the poles of opposites that make life a meaningful experience. --Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Science in this century has shown that common sense is not a reliable guide to understanding how things work. In Paradox and Healing, Drs. Greenwood and Nunn show why this same caution applies to staying well and overcoming illness. Unless we make a place for the paradoxical, we will never understand health and illness. That's why this book is an important contribution. --Larry Dossey, M.D.

...original and insightful... --Yoga Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: New Century Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 096958220X
• ISBN 13: 9780969582205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 254