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Dr. Andrew Weil on America’s Evolution into Integrative Medicine
by Andrea Schensky Williams N
atural Awakenings had the opportunity to pose progressive healthcare-related questions
to Dr. Andrew Weil, world-renowned author, founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of Arizona, shortly before the sixth biennial Symposium of Integrative Medicine Professionals, to be held October 13 to 15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will be the keynote speaker.
You frequently speak to the topic of integrative health and happiness. How does your book, Spontaneous Happiness, refl ect that? For a long time, I’ve wanted to see an integrative movement start in psychology and psychiatry. It’s another fi eld that has become dependent on drugs and is not functioning all that well to help people. There are so many more things that people need to know about maintaining emotional wellness, I think the wisdom of taking an integrative approach here is obvious.
Your presentation will take place soon after the recent passing of actor and comedian Robin Williams, which may bring about a more informed awareness of mental health. Why do you think there is such an increase in the incidence of depression? There are many reasons for it, including changes in diet and a breakdown in communities that has greatly increased social isolation and disconnection from nature. Another factor is the rise in information technology, all the new media. Plus, pharmaceutical companies have been highly successful in convincing people that ordinary states of sadness are matters of unbalanced brain chemistry that need to be treated with medication.
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