Conditions for Healing, Growth, and Change
2 Conditions for Healing, Growth, and Change Confronting the Best and the Worst People can grow and change when they face the best and the worst in themselves, with the…
Issues Relevant to Any Therapeutic Relationship
4 Issues Relevant to Any Therapeutic Relationship The Contract The person who comes for acupuncture is asking for help, usually with a specific problem. Most often at this juncture in…
The Practitioner’s Role
3 The Practitioner’s Role Significance The practitioner is a key figure, the person whose participation enables the patient to see him- or herself and his or her situation in a…
Basic Conditions or Tenets—An Overview
1 Basic Conditions or Tenets—An Overview Respect As we will see below in some detail, respect is the foundation of any successful relationship and foremost in our considerations of a…
