Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology & Chinese Medicine
Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology & Chinese Medicine Books
- ISBN13: 9780939616473
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Behind the acupuncture, herbal remedies and sophisticated diagnostics of Chinese medicine lies a “congenial system of healing that embodies union of body and mind, spirit and matter, nature and man, philosophy and reality.” In this comprehensive and ground-breaking presentation, based on long experience as physician, psychiatrist, and practitioner of Chinese medicine, Leon Hammer offers a new develop for appreciating the habitual healer’s effective and profound respect for individual integrity and energetic balance. Explaining, and tender beyond, the five phase (element) system, he shows that this Eastern do is as much a spiritual science as a corporal one. Accessible to the layman, yet a resource for the professional in any healing art, this book examines the natural energy functions of the human organism as a key to mental, emotional and spiritual health. It offers new insight into disease, showing how it is not merely an invasion from the outside, but rather a byproduct of a person’s unsuccessful attempt to restore one’s own balance.
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With the caveat that I’m not a practitioner, but merely a reasonably well-informed patient, I found this book overly **dark.** It was fascinating, to a top, but also scary, and everlastingly tending towards the negative. I reckon the fact that the author is a psychiatrist may have something to do with that, but it seemed to take the exaggerated form of any of the five element’s characteristics and show what it would look like, taken to the ultimate extreme–and, in some way, that was everlastingly terrible. Even as I found a superbly fitting description of a trying person in my life that helped me get some perspective on him by reading this book, at the same time, when I read items about my own element, I found them exaggerated and bizarre; as they would be in mental illness but not in real life. Report has it that the author is nearly “psychic” about being able to reveal the health-based Achille’s heel in his patients, but I didn’t find reading about it a nourishing or uplifting experience. Not that a book has to be, but this one was uniformly dark, and I had to judge that came from the author’s perspective, and was no accident. Odd!
Rating: 2 / 5
“Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies” demystifies the Chinese Five Element Theory and other Eastern energy medicine basics in a readable format. As a practitioner of one of the Oriental modalities, I’m finding my understanding and teaching enhanced, as I delight in Leon Hammer’s expressive style.
Rating: 5 / 5
If your a student of tcm this book is a must, it is thorough, clear explanation of how the elements bestow in psyche of man.
Rating: 5 / 5
Very fascinating book but it is not a “light” book for beginners. The reader needs to master first the philosophy of the 5 Elements and their subtleties and then delight in Dr. Hammer journey through psycho and soma.
Rating: 5 / 5
The question of mind-body duality has fueled many long and heated debates. Dr. Hammer, who is well trained in habitual Western medicine and psychology, recognized the importance of working with the person, and not just a part of that person. In an effort to be right to his view, and to the patients he treated, he trained in and added Habitual Chinese Medicine to his treatment skills, thus allowing him to handle the whole person in an integrated, rather than a fragmented manner. This book presents Dr. Hammer’s integrated understanding of how the body impacts the mind, and the mind impacts the body. In a clear and concise manner, and with helpful clinical examples, Dr. Hammer takes the reader through fundamental principles and concepts of Habitual Chinese Medicine, and then applies them to the specific area of Psychology. This is not a “how to” book, rather it is a plotting provoking volume on how to integrate two seemingly disparate fields of health care (Habitual Chinese Medicine, and Western Psychoanalytic plotting). Through his examination of these models and his description of how he thinks, as he works with his patients, the reader is able to gain insight into this integrated administer. Even as the book is by no means an exhaustive treatise on the theme, it lays a solid foundation on which others can easily build, both academically and in clinical do. I look forward to reading more of Dr. Hammer’s writings in the future, and hope that other clinicans will follow his lead.
Rating: 5 / 5