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Crossing the healing zone : from illness to wellness
\"The medicine of the 20th century was about the treatment of illness. The medicine of the 21st century is about wellness. Crossing the Healing Zone advances the new concepts of the emerging frontiers of integrative medicine, bringing together Eastern and Western healing traditions and merging body, mind, and spirit in a Jungian perspective. The journey through the Healing Zone that Dr. Bedi proposes is guided by archetypes and myths, active imagination, dreams and synchronicities, and the neuroplastic mysteries of our complex physical reality.The Healing Zone can be described in many ways--as the fourth dimension of consciousness, as quantum consciousness, as Jung's \"psychoid space,\" as the Buddhist Third Way, or as the \"gap\" between the ego and the soul. Here, we can access all three areas of the triune brain--reptilian, limbic, and neocortical--all of which must be addressed in order to achieve full integration and healing. The Healing Zone is a bridge between the ego and the soul--a bridge that we can cross to reach the healing wisdom of the universe.Dr. Bedi outlines how to work with psychological and soul processes in moving from illness to wellness, and provides practical methods and techniques that can help readers access and engage the Healing Zone. The book contains informative and visual guidelines and practices that can help us create and manage our own personal wellness programs and become full and active partners in our own journeys from illness to wellness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Analytical Psychology, Indian Healing Traditions, and the Emerging Frontiers of Neuroscience
One of C. G. Jung's seminal concepts is the union of the opposites, a process that leads to a higher coniunctio. I propose that when we alchemically dissolve numerous frames and perspectives dealing with a similar issue, we may dissolve these similarities to constellate a unique synthesis and a deeper understanding of the issue. In this article, I blend the Indian healing traditions, allopathic psychiatry, and analytical psychology with the emerging research in neuroscience. I consider the emerging research in the triune brain, microchimerism, junk DNA, mirror neurons, and the neuroplastic impact of purposefulness, resilience, and the healing image. Some of the possible theoretical and clinical implications of these neuroscientific frontiers are explored in a preliminary manner.
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Systems Theory and Therapeutic Systems
This article examines the role of a psychiatric consultant in a psy chiatric hospital undergoing a major change. The principles of group phenomenon, systems theory, sentient, task, and basic as sumption groups were utilized in diagnosis of organizational re gression, elucidation of its precipitants, and strategies for helping the organization towards higher level of integration in face of po tentially regressive changes.
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Bipolar disorder goes far beyond `high spirits
Q. I am a person who gets incredibly excited over special events. My sister-in-law laughs and has called me \"manic\" for years. Please print an explanation of manic depression. I get loud and happy, but I sure don't feel depressed. A. Manic depression is a widely used term for bipolar disorder, a mental illness marked by severe mood swings. The mood changes are severe enough to cause very noticeable impairment on the job, in social activities and in personal relationships. In severe cases, hospitalization may be necessary to keep the patient from hurting himself or others.
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Holistic practitioners must face scientific testing
IN AN In My Opinion column July 7, S.J. Schmidt refers to the FDA's closing of Jonathan Wright's medical clinic in Kent, Washington, in May. She alleges that the FDA's current intimidation and closure practices are about money, power and control. She suggests that the FDA commissioners act as the enforcers for the AMA/pharmaceutical alliance and lobby in America. She believes the public is told to believe that the FDA acts to protect them medically but in reality the FDA acts to protect the power and the financial interests of the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies. The conspiracy theory notwithstanding, there is a great danger in any so-called holistic, homeopathic treatment that is unsupervised by clinicians who specialize, diagnose and treat medical problems. Often, the \"skill\" is just as much in diagnosis as it is in treatment. Before these holistic practitioners start treating their patients, they need to demonstrate competence, skills and appropriate diagnosis of the vast array of complex medical disorders that they claim to treat.
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Therapy, pills used to treat depression
Q. How does a doctor decide a person should use a drug to combat depression? How does a doctor decide what drug to prescribe? A. Depression is a serious mental-health problem that affects 6% of the population at any one time. About 10 million Americans suffer from depression in any given six-month period. At least 10% of the population will experience a major depression at some point in their lifetime. Of these, 10% eventually may end their lives by suicide. While mild depression may often respond to psychotherapy alone, moderate to severe depression usually requires a combination of psychotherapy and antidepressant medication. The medication relieves the biochemical disturbances associated with depression while cognitive and other forms of psychotherapy attempt to change the dysfunctional ways of thinking and managing feelings that contribute to depression. Choosing Medication Actually, depression is one of the most treatable of psychiatric disorders, and I am glad to see that in our community there is an openness and acceptance of this as a valid medical disorder that can be effectively treated. As you are reading this, researchers around the globe are exploring exciting new frontiers in the treatment of depression and other psychiatric disorders. * * *
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The Demographic Correlates of Admissions to the Alcohol Detoxification Program at a Midwestern Metropolitan Mental Health Complex
Using the data from the 1970 census of population and housing for the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, demographic information was recorded for each of the approximately 300 census tracts in the Milwaukee County pertaining to the population characteristics, marital status, age stratification, economic characteristics, and housing characteristics. Also, information was collected on number of admissions into the alcohol detoxification program for each census tract. The 300 census tracts were then divided into four categories: very low admission, low admission, high admission, and very high admission. Using a computer method, a demographic analysis of these four groups of census tracts was then carried out to examine the correlation between the density of admissions and various demographic characteristics. During the course of the study, various correlations between high admissions to the alcohol detoxification program and various demographic characteristics emerged. Implications of these findings, in terms of present service and future planning, are discussed.
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The epidemiology of admissions to the child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic
Using the data from the 1970 census of population and housing for the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1), demographic information was recorded for each of the approximately 300 census tracts in Milwaukee County pertaining to the population characteristics, marital status, age stratification, and economic and housing characteristics. Also, information was collected on the number of admissions into the child and adolescent outpatient clinic for each census tract. The 300 census tracts were than divided into four categories: very low admission, low admission, high admission, and very high admission. Using a computer method, a demographic analysis of these four groups of census tracts was then carried out to examine the correlation between the census tracts was then carried out to examine the correlation between the density of admissions and various demographic characteristics. During the course of the study, various correlations between high admissions to the child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic and various demographic characteristics emerged. Implications of these findings, in terms of present service and future planning, are discussed.
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Comparative evaluation of machine learning models for groundwater quality assessment
Contamination from pesticides and nitrate in groundwater is a significant threat to water quality in general and agriculturally intensive regions in particular. Three widely used machine learning models, namely, artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM), and extreme gradient boosting (XGB), were evaluated for their efficacy in predicting contamination levels using sparse data with non-linear relationships. The predictive ability of the models was assessed using a dataset consisting of 303 wells across 12 Midwestern states in the USA. Multiple hydrogeologic, water quality, and land use features were chosen as the independent variables, and classes were based on measured concentration ranges of nitrate and pesticide. This study evaluates the classification performance of the models for two, three, and four class scenarios and compares them with the corresponding regression models. The study also examines the issue of class imbalance and tests the efficacy of three class imbalance mitigation techniques: oversampling, weighting, and oversampling and weighting, for all the scenarios. The models’ performance is reported using multiple metrics, both insensitive to class imbalance (accuracy) and sensitive to class imbalance (F1 score and MCC). Finally, the study assesses the importance of features using game-theoretic Shapley values to rank features consistently and offer model interpretability.
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