An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure-- Publisher's description. Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three...

"Como si de un trabajo de detectives se tratara, el alergólogo investiga la vida de la persona alérgica, desde sus hábitos diarios en casa hasta su lugar de trabajo. Una vez determinadas las sustancias que le producen síntomas alérgicos, aconseja sobre cómo remediar estas molestias: estornudos, picores, dificultad para respirar, problemas digestivos... De la mano de una de las mayores expertas de nuestro país, en este libro aprenderás todo...

"Join forces with For Dummies to manage joint pain. Arthritis For Dummies helps you make sense of arthritis and understand your diagnosis and treatment options. This updated edition show you the latest advances in diagnostic techniques, medications, and treatment plans. With these expert tips and proven medical wisdom, you'll be able to calm those joints, so you can get back to the business of living. Alternative medicine and lifestyle changes...

"Why does Cliff, a successful lawyer who regularly wins landmark cases, step over two-foot piles of paper whenever he opens his front door? Why do Joan and Paul ask Children's Services to take their three children instead of decluttering their home? Why does Lucinda feel intense pressure to hold onto her family's heirlooms even though she has no room for them? They have hoarding disorder, which an estimated 2% to 6% of the adult population worldwide...

Instructor leads participants through easy yoga poses for upper and lower body while seated, standing poses for hips and legs with the aid of a chair (if needed), and relaxation and meditation.

"Navigating Life with Chronic Pain provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family, and caregivers face when confronted by chronic pain. No two pain experiences are the same, so your chronic pain depends on where you have pain, how long you have experienced pain, and how the pain symptoms developed. Everyone needs a customized approach because pain symptoms, other medical conditions, past pain experiences,...

A guide to overcoming back pain without drugs or surgery identifies psychological factors that can cause back pain, discusses Tension Myositis Syndrome, and offers case histories and results from mind-body research.

In our current era of rapidly developing cancer drugs and therapies, we also see improvement of cancer treatment outcomes stagnating when it comes to determining quality of life or long-term survival. This is because while new treatments are making small incremental progress in outcomes, most cancer patients still depend on conventional methods that are both toxic and ineffective. While new cancer drugs are becoming more precise or targeted, less...