Appendix 2–3 Premises of Mind-Body Medicine
- Mind and body are simply two aspects of a whole individual. The mind is no less medically real and significant than the body.
- Every person has self-healing abilities.
- Each person is unique, and must be responded to as such. To be most effective, the treatment program must be individualized for each person.
- Each person is an integration of physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual aspects. All aspects are equally important. All must be addressed in the approach to health.
- Patients' healing abilities are strongly affected by their expectations and beliefs. The expectations, attitudes, beliefs, and words of practitioners strongly influence the expectations of their patients.
- Mainline medicine does not have a monopoly on the search for health.
- Patients need to be actively involved in their own healing and in the decision making concerning their treatments.
SOURCE: Modified from Mind-Body Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Psychoneuroimmunology, Watkins, A, p. 99, 1997, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, and Sierpina, VS: Integrative Health Care: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for the Whole Person, F.A. Davis, Philadelphia, 2001.
Appendix 2–3 Premises of Mind-Body Medicine
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