Working with Shiatsu 1: It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it
CHAPTER 7 Working with Shiatsu 1 It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it When we begin to practice Shiatsu, our intention is often wholly altruistic….
MANUAL THERAPIST
The healing encounter
CHAPTER 5 The healing encounter As we have seen in the previous chapter, the rhythms of one person’s electromagnetic field can be registered in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of another person…
What is Shiatsu?
CHAPTER 1 What is Shiatsu? Since the first edition of this book came out, public awareness of the many forms of complementary therapies has increased immensely. Shiatsu has become a…
COGNITIVE THERAPY: BASIC TECHNIQUES
ELICITING NEGATIVE AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS Anxiety is accompanied by different types of thought, and it is necessary to distinguish between types of thought in correctly targeting NATs. For more information on…
GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER
THE NATURE OF WORRY Worrying is both a normal phenomenon and an activity which occurs in association with a wide range of emotional disorders. The worries of GAD patients closely…
ASSESSMENT: AN OVERVIEW
AIMS OF ASSESSMENT Several aims are served by assessment: identification of problems; elicitation of information for case conceptualisation; determination of past and present level of patient functioning; monitoring treatment outcome….
SOCIAL PHOBIA
THE NATURE OF SOCIAL PHOBIA Social phobia is defined in DSM-IV as a ‘marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur’ (p. 411). For…
PANIC DISORDER
CHARACTERISTICS OF PANIC ATTACKS Panic attacks are defined as rapid occurrences of anxiety or rapid escalations in current anxiety in which there are at least 4 of 13 somatic or…
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
PREVALENCE OF OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS Obsessions and compulsions occur as normal phenomena, differentiated from their OCD counterparts by the distress or disruption they cause. Normal obsessions occur in 80–88 per…
