rosie
26th May 2010, 02:41
Some may say he has just taken information from a less profiteering person, and is making money from it.
But I say, here is a man who has taken action, saw that humanity could actually benefit from ancient knowledge. I take my hat off to him for that, as I see far too many talkers, and not too much action from the health profession. It is in all of our owns best interest that we take charge of our own health, from the inside out, and learn how to naturally help ourselves so that we become a much better balanced human being in our health and well being..
( I have never bought a book from this gentleman, it is just a sense that he is at least on the right track of humanity )
:p
“Look,” says David Servan-Schreiber, as he pulls a tin of sardines from the shelf of a Parisian supermarket, “the label states ‘rich in omega-3 fatty acids.’” He places two tins in his basket “You wouldn’t have seen that before my book was published.”
His book, The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy, drew the attention of a million French people to the importance of omega-3 fatty acids and—even more important—offered an alternative to pills and talk therapy as the method to handle traumas, panic attacks, depression and stress. Servan-Schreiber presents a number of complementary therapies that are not only often cheaper and simpler than conventional treatments, but more effective.
And with this, the 45-year-old psychiatrist has unleashed a small revolution in France—a country where people take more antidepressants and tranquilizers than anywhere else. Twenty-two percent of the French suffer from depression with one in seven taking medication to treat it. Nearly three-quarters of all visits to the family doctor are directly related to stress. In most cases, patients leave with a prescription. The French are not unique, either: In the Western world, stress and depression pose a bigger threat to public health than smoking.
But the fact that Servan-Schreiber’s book became a bestseller outside France—it has been translated into 37 languages, including Chinese—indicates that he has more going for him than a famous name. The book is not only very readable, but also quite credible because Servan-Schreiber is a traditionally schooled psychiatrist with a high record of service. He studied medicine in the U.S. at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then headed up a prestigious psychiatric research laboratory there and is now a professor at the university as well as at the École de Médecine in Lyon, France. There isn’t a psychiatrist in all of France who has published as many articles in respected scientific journals, such as Science and Archives of General Psychiatry. Yet David Servan-Schreiber was once just as skeptical about “alternative” therapies as the average psychiatrist.
The turning point came five years ago during a trip to India for Doctors Without Borders. In the Himalayan town of Dharamsala, the centre of the Tibetan community in exile, he walked into a hospital one day and realized they were using treatment methods he’d never seen before. Tibetan doctors were diagnosing patients flawlessly just by feeling their pulses and tongues and testing their urine. Servan-Schreiber recalls, “I didn’t understand it at all. At one point I also saw a doctor put pressure between someone’s thumb and index finger, which ‘switched off’ the brain’s fear centre.”
Back in the United States he started examining the medical literature on these treatments. And indeed, nearly every method he had seen was clearly documented. Why, he wondered, didn’t he know anything about them? Why hadn’t he learned these techniques in medical school?
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/35/our_natural_instinct_to_heal/
But I say, here is a man who has taken action, saw that humanity could actually benefit from ancient knowledge. I take my hat off to him for that, as I see far too many talkers, and not too much action from the health profession. It is in all of our owns best interest that we take charge of our own health, from the inside out, and learn how to naturally help ourselves so that we become a much better balanced human being in our health and well being..
( I have never bought a book from this gentleman, it is just a sense that he is at least on the right track of humanity )
:p
“Look,” says David Servan-Schreiber, as he pulls a tin of sardines from the shelf of a Parisian supermarket, “the label states ‘rich in omega-3 fatty acids.’” He places two tins in his basket “You wouldn’t have seen that before my book was published.”
His book, The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy, drew the attention of a million French people to the importance of omega-3 fatty acids and—even more important—offered an alternative to pills and talk therapy as the method to handle traumas, panic attacks, depression and stress. Servan-Schreiber presents a number of complementary therapies that are not only often cheaper and simpler than conventional treatments, but more effective.
And with this, the 45-year-old psychiatrist has unleashed a small revolution in France—a country where people take more antidepressants and tranquilizers than anywhere else. Twenty-two percent of the French suffer from depression with one in seven taking medication to treat it. Nearly three-quarters of all visits to the family doctor are directly related to stress. In most cases, patients leave with a prescription. The French are not unique, either: In the Western world, stress and depression pose a bigger threat to public health than smoking.
But the fact that Servan-Schreiber’s book became a bestseller outside France—it has been translated into 37 languages, including Chinese—indicates that he has more going for him than a famous name. The book is not only very readable, but also quite credible because Servan-Schreiber is a traditionally schooled psychiatrist with a high record of service. He studied medicine in the U.S. at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then headed up a prestigious psychiatric research laboratory there and is now a professor at the university as well as at the École de Médecine in Lyon, France. There isn’t a psychiatrist in all of France who has published as many articles in respected scientific journals, such as Science and Archives of General Psychiatry. Yet David Servan-Schreiber was once just as skeptical about “alternative” therapies as the average psychiatrist.
The turning point came five years ago during a trip to India for Doctors Without Borders. In the Himalayan town of Dharamsala, the centre of the Tibetan community in exile, he walked into a hospital one day and realized they were using treatment methods he’d never seen before. Tibetan doctors were diagnosing patients flawlessly just by feeling their pulses and tongues and testing their urine. Servan-Schreiber recalls, “I didn’t understand it at all. At one point I also saw a doctor put pressure between someone’s thumb and index finger, which ‘switched off’ the brain’s fear centre.”
Back in the United States he started examining the medical literature on these treatments. And indeed, nearly every method he had seen was clearly documented. Why, he wondered, didn’t he know anything about them? Why hadn’t he learned these techniques in medical school?
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/35/our_natural_instinct_to_heal/