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Abram Hoffer

1917 – 2009

Ran the first double-blind trials in psychiatry and founded orthomolecular medicine with high-dose niacin.

Canada·Functional Medicine · Psychology · Medicine

Elmer Green

1917 – 2017

Menninger researcher who founded clinical biofeedback and self-regulation therapy.

United States·Psychology · Integrative Medicine

Louise Hay

1926 – 2017

You Can Heal Your Life and Hay House globalised affirmation culture; its health claims are contested.

United States·New Thought · Psychology

Jon Kabat-Zinn

b. 1944

Created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979; now standard in clinics worldwide.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Psychology

Gabor Maté

b. 1944

Physician of addiction and trauma; reframed illness as a response to lived adversity.

Canada·Integrative Medicine · Psychology