t i v a i t t p a t H n p f s l g n s r n T ake care” is often a parting phrase we use with our friends and family, noted Don Vickery, MD, a pioneer in self-care and coauthor of he groundbreaking book, Take Care of ourself, published over three decades ago. lthough the notion of taking care of ourself or that health is a personal reponsibility rather than professional one as controversial at th...

In The Wholeness of Nature (1996), Henri Bortoft shows how a Goethean science of qualitative wholeness complements the analytic and causal- explanatory framework that underlies most research in the natural and social sciences. Goethe's insights and methods suggest that a better understanding of Indian tribes may occur when a tribe is regarded as its own abstraction and its own explanation. In G...

A city is a whole, as are all cities in a country. Within a whole, individual cities possess different degrees of wholeness, defined by Christopher Alexander as a life-giving order or simply a living structure. To characterize the wholeness and in particular to advocate for wholeness as an effective design principle, this paper develops a geographic representation that views cities as a whole. ...

This study explores the bell’s attributes as a representation of wholeness, analyzed through lens analytical psychology. Encompassing its production, religious significance, and literary references, our aim is to uncover profound meaning behind bell. The transformative journey parallels internal struggles individuals grappling with emerging energies while bringing unconscious thoughts into awar...

As diagnostic technology has progressed and the understanding of the disease process has evolved, the number of mastectomies performed in the United States has increased. Breast reconstructive techniques have commensurately become more sophisticated along the same timeline. The result is that those facing mastectomy have the potential to simultaneously retain physical beauty and wholeness. Only...

In order to understand the complex behaviors in megaloscopic systems, it is necessary to analyse the detailed mechanisms of non-separability in nonlinear processes. The essential roles of nonlinearity are pursued in the local-global linkage from deterministic points of view carrying out with nonlinear dynamical models; onset of subliminal threshold, self-organization of soft interface, and scal...