Michael Samuels

Michael Samuels, M.D, is a physician who has used creativity, art, and guided imagery with patients with life threatening illness and life crises for over thirty years in private practice and in consultation. He is the founder and director of Art As a Healing Force, a project started in 1990 devoted to healing yourself, others, the community and the earth with creativity and making art and healing one. He teaches Art and Healing at San Francisco State University, Institute of holistic Studies and John F Kennedy University . He is a bear dancer with the Chumash People three times a year, to heal people and the earth.. He lectures and does workshops nationwide for physicians, nurses, artists, and patients on how to use creativity and spirituality in healing. He has organized many nationwide conferences on creativity and healing and visited and participated in projects in hospitals where creativity, art and music are used with patients. He has networked people in the field together and is a recognized leader in art and healing. He is a sculptor and marble carver. He is the author of twenty three books including the best selling Well Body Book, Well Baby Book, Well Pregnancy Book, and the guided imagery classic Seeing With the Mind’s Eye, Creative Healing, Spirit Body Healing, The Path of the Feather, Shaman Wisdom- Shaman Healing, Caritas Path to Peace and Healing with the Arts.