What About Meds?
New patients often ask about the role psychotropic medication might play in their recovery from anxiety, depression and other disorders. I recently took up this question with a subject matterContinue Reading: What About Meds?
Welcome!
If you or a loved one are suffering the physical and emotional distress of anxiety, depression, or PTSD, my heart goes out to you. These illnesses represent some of the most intense forms of anguish any human being can experience. I also have some wonderful news: over the last 30 years my colleagues and I have been assembling a suite of integrative approaches that target the very roots of these disorders. We're now regularly seeing complete recoveries from them all - often in much less time than we once thought such healing would take. Please avail yourself of the resources on my site, and reach out to me should you wish to connect in person.
Healing PTSD
Trauma touches every life. My colleagues and I have developed a cutting-edge suite of mind/body tools anyone can learn and use to heal the physical and mental aftereffects of trauma.
Healing Anxiety
Anxiety brings more people to psychotherapy than any other disorder. CBT has long been recognized as the first-line treatment for generalized anxiety, social fears, phobias, OCD and other disorders
Healing Depression
One in five Americans will, at some point in in their lives, be laid low by feelings of sadness, lethargy, hopelessness and worthless. Happily, a drug-free, evidence-based path to healing is now available.
Intensive Therapy
No data exists in support of one hour of weekly therapy being an optimal dose. I offer interested patients four to six hours of psychotherapy for up to five days in a row in my popular therapy intensives.
Forthcoming April, 2021 My Tropic of Cancer: Living & Dying With a Dread Disease
My Tropic of Cancer: Living & Dying With a Dread Disease tells the story of cancer’s passage through three generations of the Mintie family. This deeply personal account relates the heartbreak, hope and hilarity that travel with a life-threatening diagnosis. It includes gritty, day-today detail of the author's life as a cancer patient, and the wider environmental, social and political milieus of cancer's arising. Tropic relates one family's psychological and spiritual responses to cancer, inviting the reader along on an intimate, inter-generational awakening to both the perils and possibilities that travel with this extraordinary disease. Tropic tells, finally, an exuberantly hopeful story, one likely to encourage any family touched by cancer to find its own authentic, life-affirming and human response.
Advance praise for My Tropic of Cancer:
Daniel's new book shares the story of his cancer career – and a great deal more. Albert Camus used the magnifying glass of bubonic plague to look deeply into the human condition. Daniel utilizes the lens of cancer to do the same. His book helps us see that while a life-threatening disease is always life-changing, it changes nothing essential. Cancer is an opportunity for us all to see more clearly the way things are. As a physician intimately involved in cancer care, I wholeheartedly recommend “My Tropic Of Cancer” to anyone whose life has been touched by this disease.
Mariusz Wirga, MD, Medical Director Psychoscial Oncology, MemorialCare Cancer Institute, Long Beach California, USA
Additional Titles
Reclaiming Life After Trauma
Reclaiming Life after Trauma addresses both the physical and psychological expressions of PTSD, presenting an...
Dharma Wheels
Dharma Wheels is an examination of human happiness through the triple lenses of Zen Buddhism, cognitive-behavioral...
My Tropic of Cancer
Tells the story of cancer’s passage through three generations of the Mintie family. This deeply personal account relates the heartbreak, hope and frequent hilarity that travel with any lethal diagnosis.
Thanks Giving: The Science Of Gratitude
Clinical trials have found that feeling grateful lowers blood pressure and heart rate, improves immune function and decreases lifetime risk for depression, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders. In this postContinue Reading: Thanks Giving: The Science Of Gratitude
Acceptance: Wellspring Of Emotional Healing
Acceptance – of self, others and the world at large – seems often in short supply these days. Importantly, these three are always one: true acceptance flows in all directions.RejectionContinue Reading: Acceptance: Wellspring Of Emotional Healing