While no one doubts that body, brain, and mind comprise an integrated system; modern psychiatry is increasingly practiced in an organ and symptom-specific manner. Integrative Psychiatry attempts to unify this fragmented approach in a responsible, scientific and clinically useful manner. Integrative Psychiatry offers to optimize current available treatments, since the rush for scientific progress marginalizes proven treatments and age-old wisdom.
By using available knowledge, based on solid scientific data, TIIPS highlights the benefit of merging complementary aspects of medicine and psychiatry. We want to identify conditions where integrative approaches to body, mind, and treatment are essential to recovery and maintenance of good health. In fact, far from being revolutionary, the body/mind connection is intuitively grasped by all, and has been that way throughout human history.
By using available knowledge, based on solid scientific data, TIIPS highlights the benefit of merging complementary aspects of medicine and psychiatry. We want to identify conditions where integrative approaches to body, mind, and treatment are essential to recovery and maintenance of good health. In fact, far from being revolutionary, the body/mind connection is intuitively grasped by all, and has been that way throughout human history.
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Something untoward is happening to modern medicine. As it is becoming ever- more sophisticated, physicians morph into "hyper-specialists" at the expense of the larger picture. For example, general eye doctors of the past have been replaced by at least 5 types of specialists, each one focusing on a different element of the eye.
It is easier becoming sober than remaining sober. At the core of our approach is our conviction that the successful journey to ISM must entail working with the person inside their everyday life, in order to help them to remain sober. Remaining sober calls for comprehensive support in relapse prevention until sobriety becomes a way of life rather than a daily struggle.
I see my early life as divided into distinct stages: the first decade was a time of innocence and wonderment, the second decade a grand rehearsal for adulthood. Young adulthood had not begun until I turned 20. That order of my early life seems quaint today.
In our 21st century Western society, we have a "cultural growth spurt": innocence gives way at 6, adulthood rehearsal occurs in preteens, which turns into "adulthood" in middle and late teenage years.Consequently, many arrive at their actual young adulthood jaded, wizened and bored. While young people experience maturity at an accelerated pace, our instincts cannot be pushed to match the rapid social and cultural changes.
In our 21st century Western society, we have a "cultural growth spurt": innocence gives way at 6, adulthood rehearsal occurs in preteens, which turns into "adulthood" in middle and late teenage years.Consequently, many arrive at their actual young adulthood jaded, wizened and bored. While young people experience maturity at an accelerated pace, our instincts cannot be pushed to match the rapid social and cultural changes.
