In Brazil, during the XX century, dozens of Spiritist psychiatric hospitals emerged seeking to integrate conventional medical treatment with complementary spiritual therapy. This combined inpatient treatment is largely found in Brazil, where many psychiatric hospitals stem from the Spiritist movement. The present report describes the use of these spiritual practices, their operating structure, ...

Although a growing body of research suggests that mind-body therapies may be appropriate to integrate into the treatment of depression, studies consistently lack methodological sophistication particularly in the area of control groups. In order to better understand the relationship between control group selection and methodological rigor, we provide a brief review of the literature on control g...

There are many of methods of treating cancer. However, the concept of curing the cancer is beyond our current knowledge. Some patients who have the cancer may seek an alternative manner of curing their disease. Alternative medicines, such as spiritual and complementary therapy, are able to cure the cancer and, at the least, are safe. Research on the importance of spirituality in cancer care has...

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Fetal medicine is a rapidly evolving speciality with improving imaging, prenatal diagnosis and evolving technology. Advances in fetal therapy have enabled us to prevent and treat conditions and improve outcome. Although the most common forms of fetal therapy used currently are preventative non-invasive methods, invasive fetal therapies, both pharmacological and surgical are rapidly evolving. As...

BACKGROUND A variety of occupational groups have been shown to experience elevated risks of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD). Little information on WMSD is available in hotel restaurant workers. OBJECTIVE To document the profile of WMSD in a sample of hotel restaurant workers in Taiwan. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather information regarding body site...

According to the author's narrative model of change, clients may maintain a problematic self-stability across therapy, leading to therapeutic failure, by a mutual in-feeding process, which involves a cyclical movement between two opposing parts of the self. During innovative moments (IMs) in the therapy dialogue, clients' dominant self-narrative is interrupted by exceptions to that self-narrati...

Qigong is an internal art practice with a long history in China. It is currently characterized as meditative movement (or as movement-based embodied contemplative practice), but is also considered as complementary and alternative exercise or mind-body therapy. There are now six controlled trials and nine other reports on the effects of qigong in fibromyalgia. Outcomes are related to amount of p...

This comprehensively researched book offers a realistic and balanced view of challenges as well as benefits found by nurses seeking to introduce complementary therapies into their practice with older people in the NHS.

If there is any primary rule of science, it is . . . acceptance of the obligation to acknowledge and describe all of re a l i ty, all that exists, e ve rything that is the case. . . . it must accept within its jurisdiction e ven that which it cannot understand or explain, that for which no theo ry exists, that which cannot be measured, predicted, controlled, or o rd e red. . . . It includes all...