Integrative Medicine

Join us for an exploration of the fundamentals of integrative medicine in an online class I’ll be teaching through the University Of New Mexico beginning Tuesday evening, October 15, 2024. The course is based on one I co-teach at Georgetown University’s School Of Medicine and is designed for providers and laypeople alike. Together we’ll learnContinue Reading: New Online Integrative Medicine Class

This month the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Reports published a paper I and two colleagues wrote presenting outcome data from a study of our integrative PTSD treatment protocol. The protocol combines cognitive-behavioral therapy and yoga, as presented in our self-help book, Reclaiming Life After Trauma. The study found the protocol produced significant reductions in all PTSDContinue Reading: New Outcome Study Of Reclaiming Life After Trauma Protocol

My patients and colleagues sometimes ask about the evidence in support of yoga as a treatment for anxiety, PTSD, depression and other mental disorders. In this post I share a new, free resource that puts the answer to this question at anyone’s fingertips

My colleagues at India’s National Institute Of Mental Health & Neurosciences [NIMHANS] recently brought out a new book in conjunction with the Indian Psychiatric Association. “The Science and Art Of Yoga In Mental And Neurological Healthcare” is a wonderfully comprehensive and readable compendium of the neurobiology of yoga and of practical ways yoga can beContinue Reading: The Science and Art Of Yoga In Mental And Neurological Healthcare

Many people understand how our thoughts and behavior create states of emotional suffering such as anxiety and depression. Fewer understand these same inputs create and maintain physical pain. As a result, we can misperceive ourselves as passive victims of pain, failing to see how and why we create this vital human experience. In a recentContinue Reading: Sticks & Stones: Cognition, Behavior & Physical Pain