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The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans – A Yale-Trained Physician's Memoir on Synthesizing Western Medicine and Spiritual Wisdom

Carl A. Hammerschlag

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Description:This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's 20-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods. While working as a family physicans in a Native American hospital in the Southwest, Carl Hammerschlag was introduced to a patient named Santiago, a Pueblo priest & clan chief, who asked him where he had learned how to heal. Hammerschlag responded almost by rote, rattling off his medical education, intership & certification. The old man replied,"Do you know how to dance?" To humor Santiago, Hammerschlag shuffled his feet at the priest's bedside. Despite his condition, Santiago got up & demonstrated the proper steps. "You must be able to dance if you are to heal people,"he admonished the young doctor. "I can teach you my steps, but you will have to hear your own music." Hammerschlag synthesizes his Jewish heritage with his experience with Native Americans to produce a practice open to all methods of healing. He discovers the wisdom of the Pueblo priest's question to his Western doctor, "Do you know how to dance?"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans – A Yale-Trained Physician's Memoir on Synthesizing Western Medicine and Spiritual Wisdom. To get started finding The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans – A Yale-Trained Physician's Memoir on Synthesizing Western Medicine and Spiritual Wisdom, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: HarperCollins Canada

Release: 1989

ISBN: 0062503952

Description: This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's 20-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods. While working as a family physicans in a Native American hospital in the Southwest, Carl Hammerschlag was introduced to a patient named Santiago, a Pueblo priest & clan chief, who asked him where he had learned how to heal. Hammerschlag responded almost by rote, rattling off his medical education, intership & certification. The old man replied,"Do you know how to dance?" To humor Santiago, Hammerschlag shuffled his feet at the priest's bedside. Despite his condition, Santiago got up & demonstrated the proper steps. "You must be able to dance if you are to heal people,"he admonished the young doctor. "I can teach you my steps, but you will have to hear your own music." Hammerschlag synthesizes his Jewish heritage with his experience with Native Americans to produce a practice open to all methods of healing. He discovers the wisdom of the Pueblo priest's question to his Western doctor, "Do you know how to dance?"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans – A Yale-Trained Physician's Memoir on Synthesizing Western Medicine and Spiritual Wisdom. To get started finding The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans – A Yale-Trained Physician's Memoir on Synthesizing Western Medicine and Spiritual Wisdom, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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