The Healing Continuum: Journeys in the Philosophy of Holistic Health

This book of readings focuses on the skillful and humanistic application of scientific knowledge and considers the experiences that many have had that are not yet understood scientifically. The emphasis is toward an integration of our scientific knowledge and methods with the intuitive, creative methods often characterizing the art of care. A harmonious balance of each of these points of view can result in a creative synthesis that is more that the sum of the parts, that is, in fact, a holistic perspective that honors both the scientist and the mystic, the rational and the intuitive, the masculine principle and the feminine principle.