Among the thousands of books about health and the practice of medicine few can match what the late Dr Peter Blythe has wrought in the penultimate contribution to his writings on these subjects. In so many ways, the title says it all. Cogent and urgent, it is a scholarly review of the hills and valleys wherein beliefs about the causes of illness, sickness, diseases and dysfunctions, and their treatment have been constantly revised and replaced, in many cases to no one’s advantage. Boldly and repeatedly throughout the text he re-states the perennial wisdom of what many enlightened professional have known, said and practiced for aeons, that ill health occurs NOT just in the body, but in the human trinity of body, mind and soul, and what affects one affects all three. If this were to become an integral part of current and future medical beliefs and practice it would indeed be a revolutionary shift in emphasis, because this perception has been dimmed in the pursuit of external causes that can be modified or seemingly eliminated by drugs, immunizations and/or surgery.
Dr Blythe states that injured emotions play a pivotal role in the onset and continuation of disease and dysfunction providing examples and evidence of where successful Medicine has looked beyond the physical agents of healing to examine and treat the emotional terrain in which the seeds of ill health have found fertile ground.
Dr Blythe states that injured emotions play a pivotal role in the onset and continuation of disease and dysfunction providing examples and evidence of where successful Medicine has looked beyond the physical agents of healing to examine and treat the emotional terrain in which the seeds of ill health have found fertile ground.
