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Scott Shannon is an MD, president elect of the American Holistic Medical Association, and is considered a national expert on holistic psychiatry. In this book, he brings together a comprehensive overview of CAM treatments, with information on their effectiveness and safety for specific patient populations and for use in treating specific disorders. Modalities covered include Acupuncture, Nutritional Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Meditation, Biofeedback, Aromatherapy and others. Coverage also includes chapters on the best CAM modalities for treatment of Anxiety and PTSD, Depression, ADD, and Addictions. Each chapter will be in a similar template, beginning with a description of the treatment, it's safety, compatibility with conventional treatments and/or contrindications, scientific documentation of it's efficacy, discussion of which disorders it is best used for, and references. This work offers the most comprehensive overview of rapidly expanding field. It includes chapters by 24 leading psychiatric/psychological experts in these fields. It documents and rates the research base in each area.; It offers practical clinical approaches for four common mental health concerns depression, anxiety, ADHD, and addictions. It talks about areas not yet covered in professional training. It features practices commonly employed by the public (40-50 per cent of the American public use complementary or alternative approaches). There is no previous book of this nature or scope.

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