Mudpacks and Prozac Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing

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MUDPACKS AND PROZAC Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical and Religious Healing w Murphy Halliburton Walnut Creek, California ...

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For Amy, Luca and Sophie and Th e people suff ering mental distress who shared their stories with me. May they fi nd some relief ...

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CONTENTS Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2Th ree Th erapies of South India 3 Lives and Problems 4 Experiencing the World from B ...

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9 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people helped with the design, development and completion of this project, and unfortunately I will only ...

10  acknowledgments Research for this project was made possible by grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological R ...

11 1 w 1 Introduction When I met “Ajit” in an ayurvedic hospital in Kerala, India, he had already tried two of the most popular ...

12  chapter  Th ere might be some good aspects in allopathy when one looks at its research and other things, but if we want to ...

introduction  13 temples, mosques and churches, where they undergo aesthetically rich healing processes that engage the senses ...

14  chapter  results should come quickly. Recall that Ajit described allopathic psychiatric treatment as having a “sudden eff ...

introduction  15 of Descartes and Heidegger nor in a grounded, embodied alternative, people in Kerala distinguish between body, ...

16  chapter  literature. Th is transition provided a profound corrective to studies that looked at human experience in cogniti ...

introduction  17 Having leaned on the term “phenomenology” at several points already, I should explain that this term has multi ...

18  chapter  that ātman, the intangible, true self, is the enduring, stable center of the human person and the state or positi ...

introduction  19 ātman as they encounter adverse life events, struggle with illness and navigate the variety of therapeutic opt ...