Theory of holistic healing, existential holistic group therapy
* Group intervention, therapeutic touch as a classic art of healing
* Tools for holistic medicine, biomedicine and the physician today
* Lifestyle, health, psychoactive drugs, sex and quality of life
* Chronic illness, pain, alcoholism, whiplash associated disorder
* Coronary heart disease, cancer, HIV and quality of life

The improvement of personal philosophy of life seems to be the essence of holistic medicine and helping the patient to assume more responsibility.

This book is published by Hippocrates Scientific Publications, New Hyde Park, New York and distributed by Traford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada

* What is quality of life, happiness, meaning in life?
* What is a human being?
* Do we need a new biology?
* Is the brain the seat of consciousness?
* How do we seize the meaning of life and by doing this, will we becoming well again?
* What are the key concepts of QOL?

The meaning of life is connectedness and development. It is about realizing every opportunity and potential in one's existence. And the opportunities have to be found and acknowledged. What do you find when you find yourself deepest down? You find your real self and your purpose in life. You realize that you are already a part of a larger totality. Antonovsky called it coherence. Maslow called it transcendence. Frankl called it meaning of life. We call it simply being.

To test if these philosphical questions were actually relevant for medicine we looked at the consequesces for patients being taught the QOL philosophy. Quite surprisingly we learned from our pilot studies with "QOL as medicine" that just by assimilating the basic concepts of the QOL philosophy presented in this series of papers, patients felt better and saw their lifes as more meaningful.

The improvement of personal philosophy of life seems to be the essence of holistic medicine and helping the patient to assume more responsibility.

In Mastering Homeopathy, Fravarti covers a very select area of prescribing and covers it like no other book available. A peek into the world of homeopathic medicine that highlights the relationship between low potency and high potency prescribing and reveals the indications for each approach and how to use them together complementary modalities. This book highlights one small area of homeopathic medicine and gives details insight on the use of polycrest remedies in high-potency and constitutional homeopathy. Not all remedies are used in all potencies and this work makes clear which remedies are most often useful in constitutional healing at the highest potencies and which remedies are the most complementary as additional support, including low potencies and combinations of remedies that may work together to provide the greatest potential for each patient to heal. High and low potency prescribing in the same patient that is integrated and complementary in a way that respects the domain of each and puts it to its best use accordingly.

In concurrence with the Danish Quality of Life Survey of 10,000 residents, theories and research methods were developed through the last decade by the Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen. The methodological improvement and research peaked with the development of new questionnaires for generic measuring of the global quality of life (QOL), like SCREENQOL, SEQOL, QOL-5 and QOL-1. In this book you will find:

• Theories of quality of life, needs, meaning of life, existence and sexuality
• Methodology for measuring quality of life
• Global generic quality of life questionnaires
• Reflections
• Publications on quality of life during 1994-2005