How Can Practitioners Safely Combine Lifestyle Management and CM Diagnosis?
Answer by Dr. Hammer
On p. 106, we looked at some examples of the difficult issues that people from different cultures or religions may have to deal with. In matters of lifestyle management techniques there are also cautions for the practitioner, as the following example shows.
Example
An elderly woman from a lower to middle class, devoutly Catholic background and little education, with 15 pregnancies and surgical intervention on almost every organ in her body came to an acupuncturist for the treatment of back pain. She was advised at the first session to begin practicing an esoteric form of meditation. This woman lost her formerly tightly held boundaries within the parameters of her religion and gradually became psychotic.
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