Investigators who use phenomenological approaches to understand experiences of human healing, caring, and wholeness need to consider the differences that exist between descriptive and hermeneutic phenomenology. In this article, these two approaches are compared and contrasted with respect to roots, similarities, and differences. Guidelines are offered to assist prospective investigators in sele...

Healing aims to restore the wholeness of persons by restoring the unity of mind and body disrupted by disease. Transcendence promotes healing by altering or cultivating beliefs that can modulate the body's response to pain or make sense of pain. This in turn can produce an emotional response that enables people to cope with chronic or terminal illness. I explain transcendence in terms of a moni...

The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within Early Byzantine culture. notion “Patristics” is reasoned corpus ideas Church Fathers, both Western. term “Eastern Patristics” means works by Greek-Byzantine who in theological disputes with Western Fathers elaborated creed. Based on an analysis texts most important provisions...

The origins of herbal therapeutics 1 The common origins of diet and medicine 1 Matters of taste 2 Shape-shifting 5 Food, medicine and pharmacology 7 Co-evolution 9 Wholeness and complexity 11 The development of herbal medicine as a practice 14 The nature of life is change 14 Ethnobotanical insights 17 In search of ‘the herbalist’ 18 Phytotherapy 21 The varieties of phytotherapy 21 Phytotherapy ...

lunacy or imbecility. There are many causes for this: a deep fear of insanity or loss of emotional control is present in many. An Association, such as the National Association for Mental Health is handicapped by its title. To produce an alternative is a difficult task, and many feel that education of the public in the wide meaning of the term " mental health " is all we can rely on. It will be ...

Four aspects of Gestalt practice that are particularly relevant to HIV-related therapy are explored: the client-therapist relationship, the phenomenonological method, awareness as the goal of therapy, and experiments and role playing. Applying the Gestalt ideals of self-regulation, wholeness, and growth to a person with HIV is vital to counteract the patient's loss of immune function. The Gesta...

In this paper, the social system theory of Marxism is applied to analyze six elements curriculum-based ideological and political education in colleges universities: educators, objects, content, methods, goals context their relationship with each other. Besides, structure functions will also be examined, so as reveal internal connection laws governing development system. On basis, four fundament...