…putting the 'CARE' back into 'healthcare'.
Posted in Healing, Inside The Consult Room, Sexual health, State of Mind on May 11th, 2012
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. ~Leonard Cohen, ‘Anthem’ Nothing that is complete breathes. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin These two quotations keep popping back into my mind lately, as they [...]
Posted in Anacardium Orientale, Inside The Consult Room, Sexual health on Apr 30th, 2012
This weekend, I re-viewed a movie which I hadn’t seen in almost 30 years. Risky Business (1983) was an atypical teen romance movie from the 80s, which in a very exaggerated artistic fashion portrayed the heart of the conflict faced by modern teens. The steamy opening scene, which was recounted as a dream sequence, portrayed [...]
Posted in Family Medicine, Healthy Emotional Expression, Infertility, Pregnancy and Delivery, Sexual health on Mar 20th, 2012
I’ve had the greatest pleasure to serve couples who suspected that they may be infertile to beholding their wee bundle of joy in their arms. Some of them were just curious about the fact that they were actively having sex with their partner for over a year without having yielded the intended results asking me [...]
Posted in Healing, Ideogenic Beliefs, Inside The Consult Room, Orgonomy, Principles, Regimen, Sexual health, State of Health, Therapeutics on Feb 26th, 2012
How does a Heilkunst treatment session work? Of course, the variety of issues and stages of health which patients bring will lead to a very individualized form of treatment, but there are a number of areas which form a backbone for the type of content that I might explore during each session. The purpose of [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Sexual health, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Jan 22nd, 2012
[Author’s Preface : There are always exceptions and individual variations to the following generalizations — however, as generalizations, they prove true over a larger sample as taken from my practice over the years. There are men who I’ve treated who conform much more to the characteristics of women in treatment I outline below, and vice [...]
Posted in Diagnosis, Healthy Emotional Expression, Inside The Consult Room, Orgonomy, Sexual health, State of Health, State of Mind on Jan 21st, 2012
Methods of diagnosis within medical Heilkunst are considerably different from those of conventional medicine. The idea of observation, itself, is restricted in conventional medicine primarily to the quantitative realm. This is a big part of the reason that we see such a dependence on medical technologies, along with a fundamental distrust in the supposedly flawed [...]
Posted in Constipation, Detox, Hydration, Regimen, Sexual health on Aug 17th, 2011
But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26 A few years ago, a very beautiful woman had first came in to see me for various complaints, including a sore neck, joints, migraines, chronic constipation and pain during intimacy. A month later, she came back to see [...]
Posted in Sexual health on Jun 13th, 2010
Following on in our series on Character Types, (Last month’s focus was on the Hysterical Type), we will take a brief look at another type this month : the Passive Feminine. These 2 examples of character types differ from each other in many ways, and are structured on very different energy dynamics. You may want [...]
Posted in Healing, Sexual health on May 17th, 2010
According to Wilhelm Reich, there is a basic contradiction between human longing for freedom and our biophysical incapacity to accept it.[1] In other words, our ability to be entirely self-regulating individuals – – invulnerable to false authority – – is a function of our physiology. Reich observed that our character structure, which determines our capacity [...]
Posted in Sexual health, State of Mind, Therapeutics on May 11th, 2010
Following on from my last post on the various typologies we draw on in Medical Heilkunst, this post is a brief description of one particular character type, called the ‘hysterical type’, or ‘hysterical character type’. The Character Types were most clearly developed in a therapeutic context by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, and provide one of the [...]
