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Resources on Healing and Intention
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Books
Carlson, R. (Ed.). (1989). Healers on healing. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam. See HERE
Carlson, R. and Shield, B. (Eds.). (1995). Handbook for the soul. Boston: Little, Brown. See HERE
Church, D. (Ed.). (2005). Healing the heart of the world: Harnessing the power of intention to change your life and your planet. Santa Rosa, CA: Elite. See HERE
Craigie FC. (2010). Positive spirituality in health care: Nine practical approaches to pursuing wholeness for clinicians, patients and health care organizations. Minneapolis: Mill City Press. (Available at res week session). Also, see HERE
Dyer, W. (2004). The power of intention. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House. See HERE
Gawande, A. (2014). Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end. New York: Penguin. See HERE
Karren, K.J., Smith, N.L., et al. (2014). Mind/body health: The effect of attitudes, emotions and relationships. Boston: Pearson. See HERE
Mehl-Madrona L. (2010). Healing the mind through the power of story: The promise of narrative psychiatry. Rochester, VT: Bear and Company. See HERE
Schlitz, M.M., Vieten, C., and Amorok, T. Living deeply: The art and science of transformation in everyday life. (2007). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. See HERE
Shealy, N. and Church, D. (2006). Soul medicine. Santa Rosa, CA: Elite. See HERE
Sulmasy, DP. (1997). The healer’s calling: A spirituality for physicians and other health care professionals. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. See HERE
And some articles
Cassel EJ. (1982). The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. NEJM, 306(11), 639-45.
Churchill LR, Schenk D. (2008). Healing skills for medical practice. Ann Int Med, 149, 720-4.
Coulehan J. (2010). On humility. Ann Int Med, 153, 200-01.
Egnew T. (2005). The meaning of healing: Transcending suffering. Ann Fam Med, 3(3): 255-62.
Egnew T. (2009). Suffering, meaning and healing: Challenges of contemporary medicine. Ann Fam Med, 7(2), 170-5.
Hsu C, Phillips WR et al. (2008). Healing in primary care: A vision shared by patients, physicians, nurses, and clinical staff. Ann Fam Med, 6(4), 307-14.
Kahn-John M. (2010). Concept analysis of Diné Hózhó: A Diné wellness philosophy. Advances in Nursing Science, 33(2), 113-25. See HERE
Schmidt S. (2004). Mindfulness and healing intention: Concepts, practice and research evaluation. J Alt Comp Med, 10/Supplement 1, S7-S14.
Scott JG, Cohen D et al. (2008). Understanding healing relationships in primary care. Ann Fam Med, 6(4), 315-22.
Verhoef MJ, Mulkins A. (2012). The healing experience- How can we capture it? EXPLORE, 8(4), 231-6.
Carlson, R. (Ed.). (1989). Healers on healing. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam. See HERE
- Essays… love is the healer, returning to wholeness, the healer within and other perspectives from Bernie Siegel, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Gerald Jampolsky, Larry Dossey and others. A twenty-plus-year-old book, but healing is healing.
Carlson, R. and Shield, B. (Eds.). (1995). Handbook for the soul. Boston: Little, Brown. See HERE
- Follows up on the Healers on Healing anthology above. Short, meditative essays “of warmth and wisdom to nourish your soul.” Joan Borysenko, Jack Canfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thomas Moore and others.
Church, D. (Ed.). (2005). Healing the heart of the world: Harnessing the power of intention to change your life and your planet. Santa Rosa, CA: Elite. See HERE
- Essays on intention, personal growth and social change from Carolyn Myss, Fred Luskin, Joan Borysenko, Thich Nhat Hanh and many others.
Craigie FC. (2010). Positive spirituality in health care: Nine practical approaches to pursuing wholeness for clinicians, patients and health care organizations. Minneapolis: Mill City Press. (Available at res week session). Also, see HERE
- Case examples, interview transcripts, research perspectives and pragmatic strategies about the personal groundedness and spiritual well-being of clinicians, the clinical encouragement of patients’ spiritual resources, and the organizational cultivation of spirited leadership and “soul.”
Dyer, W. (2004). The power of intention. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House. See HERE
- Intention as a life force, and living in concert with it. Dyer now passed on)was the psychologist, always a little ahead of his time, who popped up giving lectures during public TV beg-athons.
Gawande, A. (2014). Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end. New York: Penguin. See HERE
- Now-classic book about healing by Harvard surgeon and educator. To give you the drift: “We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think or job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when disability comes, but all along the way.”
Karren, K.J., Smith, N.L., et al. (2014). Mind/body health: The effect of attitudes, emotions and relationships. Boston: Pearson. See HERE
- Not about healing clinically, but a remarkable 5th-edition compendium of the state of our understanding about mind/body relationships. Excellent reviews of literature on personality styles and health (e.g., anger/hostility, worry/anxiety, depression), social support and health (e.g., relationships, loneliness, bereavement), spirituality and health (e.g., faith, altruism and optimism), perception and health (e.g., explanatory style, locus of control, humor/laughter) and good descriptions of behavioral medicine approaches and training in resilience.
Mehl-Madrona L. (2010). Healing the mind through the power of story: The promise of narrative psychiatry. Rochester, VT: Bear and Company. See HERE
- Exploration of the role of narratives in suffering and well-being, and approaches to “re-storying” life. Author has Native American heritage and brings rich cross-cultural perspectives.
Schlitz, M.M., Vieten, C., and Amorok, T. Living deeply: The art and science of transformation in everyday life. (2007). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. See HERE
- Grows from decades of consciousness research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the authors’ own decade-long study of personal transformation that has included interviews with 50 teachers and masters of the transformative process and with hundreds of people engaged in their own transformative journeys. Themes from this work, with liberal quotations from their interviews, about living deeply with richness, meaning and joy.
Shealy, N. and Church, D. (2006). Soul medicine. Santa Rosa, CA: Elite. See HERE
- Shealy is a neurosurgeon and founding president of the American Holistic Medical Association. Perspectives on energy healing and nice section on characteristics of master healers (calm emotional states, intention, and spiritual practice, among others).
Sulmasy, DP. (1997). The healer’s calling: A spirituality for physicians and other health care professionals. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. See HERE
- Sulmasy is a Franciscan friar and physician. Encourages readers in the journey toward transcendent meaning in professional practice. Nice sections on “Medicine, love and the art of being uncertain” and “The joy of practice.”
And some articles
Cassel EJ. (1982). The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. NEJM, 306(11), 639-45.
- Classic article on the nature and relief of suffering. Many more recent iterations, including a book with the same title (no movie yet), but this is the vanguard 1982 version in NEJM.
Churchill LR, Schenk D. (2008). Healing skills for medical practice. Ann Int Med, 149, 720-4.
- Interviews with 50 practitioners identified by peers as “healers.” Eight skills: Do the little things, take time, be open and listen, find something to like and to love, remove barriers, let the pt explain, share authority, and be committed. See HERE
Coulehan J. (2010). On humility. Ann Int Med, 153, 200-01.
- Reflections on virtue of humility, “… unflinching self-awareness, empathetic openness to others, and a keen appreciation of, and gratitude for, the privilege of caring for sick persons.” See HERE
Egnew T. (2005). The meaning of healing: Transcending suffering. Ann Fam Med, 3(3): 255-62.
- Recent qualitative study of the meaning of healing, based on open-ended interviews with seven physicians, including Cassell, Siegal and Kubler-Ross. Healing an “intensely personal experience… associated with themes of wholeness, narrative and spirituality." See HERE.
Egnew T. (2009). Suffering, meaning and healing: Challenges of contemporary medicine. Ann Fam Med, 7(2), 170-5.
- Essay building on Egnew’s earlier work. Argument that changes in society and in medicine have challenged the historic role of doctors as physician-healers. As holistic healers, clinicians recognize patients’ suffering and help them to “discover or create new illness narratives with fresh meanings that reconnect them to the world and to others and thereby transcend suffering and experience healing.” See HERE
Hsu C, Phillips WR et al. (2008). Healing in primary care: A vision shared by patients, physicians, nurses, and clinical staff. Ann Fam Med, 6(4), 307-14.
- Qualitative analysis of focus group conversations with 84 health care clinicians and staff. Healing as “a multidimensional process with physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.” See HERE.
Kahn-John M. (2010). Concept analysis of Diné Hózhó: A Diné wellness philosophy. Advances in Nursing Science, 33(2), 113-25. See HERE
- Anthropological exploration of concept of wellness/wholeness in the Diné (Navajo) tradition. Thinking, spirituality, relationship, reciprocity, respect, and discipline. “Healing for the Diné is not about specific symptoms but more about bringing the psyche into harmony with the whole gamut of natural and supernatural forces around it.”
Schmidt S. (2004). Mindfulness and healing intention: Concepts, practice and research evaluation. J Alt Comp Med, 10/Supplement 1, S7-S14.
- “Mindfulness is strongly related to compassion, and it is compassion that serves as a source for all healing intentionality.”
Scott JG, Cohen D et al. (2008). Understanding healing relationships in primary care. Ann Fam Med, 6(4), 315-22.
- Qualitative analyses of in-depth interviews with primary care clinicians who had been identified as exemplar healers. Themes of valuing/creating a nonjudgmental emotional bond, appreciating and managing power in ways beneficial to pts, and “abiding;” a commitment to caring for pts over time. Discusses associated clinician competencies and health care outcomes. See HERE.
Verhoef MJ, Mulkins A. (2012). The healing experience- How can we capture it? EXPLORE, 8(4), 231-6.
- Interviews with 35 individuals with healing experiences at a wellness center. “Healing is a personal and subjective experience,” “Healing involves moving toward a state of wholeness,” “Healing is self-directed and requiring positive intention,” and “Healing is experienced in various degrees and levels within a person” (physical, mental, social and transformative). See HERE.