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    Differences between the Biomedical Model and Existential Medicine

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    • latest essays by Peter Wilberg

      • Introduction to Existential Medicine
      • Rethinking the Foundations of Existential Medicine
      • Biomedicine as Money-Driven Medicine
      • The Lived Body as a Living Organism
      • The Methods and Practice of ‘Life Doctoring’

    • further essays

      • The Medical Consultation as a ‘Frame Up’
      • What Biological Medicine Can’t Explain
      • Differences between the Biomedical Model and Existential Medicine
      • Life Doctoring – therapy for serious or chronic illness
      • Making Things Worse Through Medication
      • On The Healing Value of Illness
      • The Phenomenology of the Health, Illness and Healing Processes
      • ‘Getting Ill to See a Doctor’ – the communicative purpose of illness
      • Healing through Feeling
      • What Doctors Don’t Ask
      • On the Myth of Medical Diagnosis
      • How Diagnosis can Damage Your Health
      • Illness and Identity – the ‘Immune Self’ and its ‘Defences’
      • Heidegger, Uexküll & Subjective Biology
      • Foundations of Existential Medicine – Part 1
      • Foundations of Existential Medicine – Part 2
      •  Soma-psychology and Soma-sensitivity
      • Organismic Ontology and Healing

    • Extracts from Heidegger, Medicine and ‘Scientific Method’

      • Heidegger and ‘Scientific Method’
      • Field-Phenomenological Medicine
      • Phenomenological Medicine and Organismic Therapy

    • Extracts from Meditation and Mental Health

      • Healing Through Awareness 1
      • Health and Human Relations in the Work-World
      • Illness as an Awareness
      • Healing through Awareness 2
      • The Body as a Language

    • by other Authors:

      • Extracts from Medical Nemesis – The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
      • Extracts from ‘The Way Toward Health’ – A Seth Book by Jane Roberts
      • ‘Principles’ of the Pharma Industry by Dr. Rath
      • ‘Why our cells make Retroviruses’ from ‘Fear of the Invisible’ by Janine Roberts
      • Cancer and Chemotherapy by Tim O’Shea
      • (True) parables from the frontline of the NHS – by Dr David Zigmond
      • Citations from Viktor von Weizsäcker
      • Guiding Thoughts
      • Mammogram Dangers

    • Bibliography

      • Bibliography

    • Videos and Press Articles

      • Videos and Press Articles

    • Forum

      • New Themes, Questions and Discussion

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    • Heidegger, Medicine and ‘Scientific Method’

    • Meditation and Mental Health

      frontcover of Meditation and Mental Health

    • from Psychosomatics to Soma-Semiotics

    • Working with the Dreaming Body by Arnold Mindell

      Dreaming Body

    • Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich

      Medical Nemesis frontcover

    • Fear of the Invisible by Janine Roberts

      Fear of the Invisible cover

    • The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness by Michael Balint

    • The Way towards Health – a seth book by Jane Roberts

      way towards health frontcover

    • Why do we fall ill by Luis Chiozza

    • Why do People Get Ill by Darian Leader/David Corfield

    • Warum wird man krank? by V. von Weizsaecker

    • Biology as Ideology by R. C. Lewontin

      Biology as Ideology front cover

    • Overdiagnosed by H. Gilbert Welch

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