The Complete Guide to Holistic Health: Unlocking the Secrets of Biopsychosocial Wellness for Lasting Well-being

The Complete Guide to Holistic Health: Unlocking the Secrets of Biopsychosocial Wellness for Lasting Well-being is purposed towards readers' self-help and self-supervision, with practical knowledge and applicable tools that all people can work with to promote wellness, and to repair, develop, and maintain their multifaceted well-being. In this book you'll find enduring lessons, accessible explanations, and reliable instructions from 14 degreed and certified doctors, massage and physical therapists, and fitness trainers whose evolved and ever-evolving strategies for wellness have enlightened them as holistic thinkers beyond the pale of reductive specialization.

Each of the writers' chapters emphasizes biopsychosocial perspectives-the comprehensive integrations of physical, mental, and social influences-that view the larger medical, anatomical, spiritual, and practical pictures from which complete health is drawn. Biopsychosocial holism seeks to complement specialization by recognizing-and then converging-added pieces to the puzzle of wellness or added colors to the full spectrum of health. Resulting in innovations created synergistically, our writers' holism takes on new dimensionality, a deeper and broader understanding of what makes humans tick best. As with all ethically concerned healers, this book's authors recommend that readers seek specialist help whenever a situation warrants special attention beyond what they, the readers, can do on their own.

This self-help book offers verified preventive, curative, and maintenance guidelines that will save readers time, money, and needless physical and psychological aggravations and that will provide the proper building blocks to structure their future wellness and health program, whatever a reader's current state of wellness may be. This book's accessible outlook, with best-practice lessons from the West and the East, and informed by wellness holists writing about their holistic practices, is further unified by the "Recurring Subject Index" at its end.

Dr. Vladimir Friedman conceived the necessity and guiding purpose of this book. A Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine with full-year post-graduate studies as a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and certified practitioner of Electrodiagnostic Studies, Vlad has been a personal trainer and now is owner-therapist of Accelerated Care Chiropractic and Accelicare Sports Chiropractic in Midtown Manhattan. Driven by a professional need to offer holistic therapy, Vlad has earned over 30 two-day post-grad certifications and over 50 lifetime certifications including EMT, first aid and safety, and lifeguarding.

Dr. Bob Davis, content supervisor, writing coach, and editor of this book, is a Ph. D. inNineteenth-Century British Literature who taught university English for almost 40 years, principallyat Clark University in MA and at NYU, where for 12 years he created, directed, and instructed a fourcourseprogram of expository prose for graduate students in the 22 majors of the Professional StudiesProgram. His published work includes Your Writing Well: Common-Sense Strategies and Logic-Based Skills, in 15 Essays for the 21st Century, instructor manuals for five college-level reading andwriting anthologies, along with two volumes of literary criticism, style-diverse nonacademic prose, and poetry. As a freelance editor and language consultant for corporate and individual clients, Bobhas been copy-chief for AOL Digital City New York, has development- and copy-edited over twentyvolumes of literature for Houghton Mifflin's New Riverside Editions, edited online for The CollegeBoard and Pearson, and also edited for magazines, advertising agencies, architectural builders, andphilanthropic foundations.