Synopses & Reviews
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This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. Collinge draws on cutting-edge scientific research along with his experience counseling couples facing serious illness to offer a range of insights, strategies, and techniques that caregivers can utilize to promote their partners’ physical and emotional well-being—while also promoting their own.
Topics include:
• The importance of self-care for the caring partner
• Ways of involving family and friends in a network of support
• Simple massage and touch techniques to bring comfort and reduce symptoms
• How open, affirmative communication can contribute to healing
• Basic energy-healing techniques to promote well-being
Synopsis
When a spouse becomes seriously ill, the healthy partner often feels a profound sense of helplessness and despair. This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. The book consists of fifty short chapters, each explaining why and when to use a given strategy and concrete step-by-step guidance in how to do it. The author, a psychotherapist and researcher, also shares his reflections and insights from two decades of clinical practice treating couples who are going through serious illness.Partners in Healing is divided into seven subject areas: Strategies of self-care for the caring partnerWays of involving family and friends in a network of supportSimple massage and touch techniques to bring comfort and reduce symptomsSimple energy healing techniquesDistant healing using transpersonal imagery, mediation, and prayerForms of affirmative communication that provide reassuranceSimple rituals of caring and nourishment
Synopsis
New Companion DVD now available. For information, click here.
This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. Collinge draws on cutting-edge scientific research along with his experience counseling couples facing serious illness to offer a range of insights, strategies, and techniques that caregivers can utilize to promote their partners' physical and emotional well-being--while also promoting their own.
Topics include:
- The importance of self-care for the caring partner
- Ways of involving family and friends in a network of support
- Simple massage and touch techniques to bring comfort and reduce symptoms
- How open, affirmative communication can contribute to healing
- Basic energy-healing techniques to promote well-being
About the Author
William Collinge, PhD, is a psychotherapist who works with individuals and couples living with cancer and other serious illnesses. He is also a noted researcher in the field of alternative health care, serving on scientific review panels at the National Institutes of Health. He is currently involved in NIH-funded research into how partners of the seriously ill can offer symptom relief and comfort through the use of Therapeutic Touch. He is the author of three books including The American Holistic Health Association Complete Guide to Alternative Medicine.