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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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6 figures
William James
1842 – 1910Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.
Abram Hoffer
1917 – 2009Ran the first double-blind trials in psychiatry and founded orthomolecular medicine with high-dose niacin.
Elmer Green
1917 – 2017Menninger researcher who founded clinical biofeedback and self-regulation therapy.
Louise Hay
1926 – 2017You Can Heal Your Life and Hay House globalised affirmation culture; its health claims are contested.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
b. 1944Created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979; now standard in clinics worldwide.
Gabor Maté
b. 1944Physician of addiction and trauma; reframed illness as a response to lived adversity.