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Treating Addiction Requires Both Science and Compassion, Says Dr. Gabor Maté

By Jane van Koeverden — 2018

Dr. Gabor Maté drew from his experiences treating addicted men and women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside when he published the bestselling nonfiction book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts a decade ago. Supplementing his personal insights with medical research, Dr. Maté offered a compassionate perspective on addiction that continues to resonate with readers.

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Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day - patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.

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Bernie S. Siegel
1998
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Art of Healing with Dr Bernie Siegel

Dr. Bernie Siegel speaks on the Art of Healing in Simsbury CT.

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Bernie S. Siegel
2014
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Help Me to Heal

Suitable for patients, visitors, and caregivers, this title includes strategies which help them become participants in the healing process—and are then able to communicate their needs to doctors and staff simply and effectively, thereby creating a healing team where everyone is moving in the same...

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Bernie Siegel, Yosaif August
2025
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Remarkable Recovery: What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us About Getting Well and Staying Well

A study of individuals who miraculously recovered from terminal illnesses draws on medical, genetic, psychological, and spiritual profiles to argue that the key to healing lies in the functioning of the immune system.

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Marc Ian Barasch, Caryle Hirshberg
1995
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All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing

By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase.

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Diane Stein
1990
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Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism

This practical guide to understanding the cranial nerves as the key to our psychological and physical well-being builds on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory—one of the most important recent developments in human neurobiology.

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Stanley Rosenberg, Benjamin Shield, Stephen W. Porges
2017
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine

Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2025
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David Reilly: Human Healing Unlocked—Transforming Suffering into Wellbeing

From germinating 30,000 year old seeds to the effects of Type II diabetes on the National Health Service, Dr David Reilly MD’s fast paced talk on how to unlock the potential of human healing is both fascinating and touching.

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2017
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Stephen Levine: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying — Thinking Allowed DVD W/ Jeffrey Mishlove

Genuine healing occurs when we take ourselves mercifully into our own hearts and accept the totality of our lives. This healing of the soul or spirit, says Stephen Levine, is independent of bodily healing. We harden our hearts when we fail to forgive ourselves of our own pain.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
2010
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The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy

Millions of Americans try drugs or talk therapy to relieve depression and anxiety, but recent scientific studies prove certain alternative treatments can work as well or better-often bringing on a cure.

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David Servan-Schreiber
2005
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