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Background: Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have traditionally operated with deficit models of the human person. By illustrating the power of a non-deficit-based model of the human person, and showing its connection with Heart-Centered Meditation, this presentation will show how traditional resistances associated with clinical work can disappear or diminish significantly.
I. Mask vs. the Person. Eating disorders are one symptom of the larger cultural illness that plagues western culture. Develops a more adequate intellectual basis for understanding the ontology of Personhood. Shows the relevance of this for the treatment of eating disorders.
II. PII: A non-deficit-based approach to treatment that is both “spiritual” and “non-spiritual.” Deals with the deeper issues of perfection, wholeness and being “good enough.” Suffering occurs when one doesn’t experience the dignity and unrepeatable uniqueness of who he or she is.
III. Wounds of the heart result in both medical and psychological illness. Healing these wounds is not about healing deficits from childhood or neurochemical defects. The deep chasm that exists in our culture between mind and body, and medical and psychological problems, is devastating for their cure. Bringing mind and heart into a proper relationship creates something as different from their component parts as hydrogen and oxygen are by themselves different from water. Emphasis will be on understanding how wounds of the heart create perception, and on how to heal the physical and emotional wounds associated with eating disorders.
Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have traditionally operated with deficit models of the human person. By illustrating the power of a non-deficit-based model of the human person, and showing its connection with Heart-Centered Meditation, this presentation will show how traditional resistances associated with clinical work can disappear or diminish significantly.
Jeffrey Rediger MD., MDiv is the Medical Director of McLean Hospital Southeast and an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A fully licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and publishes in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and spirituality.
