Alternative Treatments of PTSD: Safe, Effective and Affordable Approaches and How to Use Them (Alternative and Integrative Treatments in Mental Health Care, #9)

Alternative Treatments of PTSD: Safe, Effective and Affordable Approaches and How to Use Them is filled with practical information on alternative treatments of PTSD including: • herbals, vitamins and other natural supplements • whole body approaches • meditation and mind-body practices • light, sound and other established energy therapies • subtle energy therapies Alternative Treatments of PTSD: Safe, Effective and Affordable Approaches and How to Use Them, includes extensive hyperlinks within the text, and links to valuable internet resources to give you the maximum amount of information in the shortest amount of time. Alternative Treatments of PTSD: Safe, Effective and Affordable Approaches and How to Use Them, will help you • Understand symptoms of PTSD better • Take inventory of your symptoms • Learn about a variety of alternative treatments of PTSD • Develop a customized treatment plan that makes sense for you • Re-evaluate your treatment plan and make changes if your initial plan doesn't work Treatment approaches are summarized in easy-to-read bullets so you can quickly find key information on a variety of treatment choices, including: • Name of treatment and category • How the treatment works • Dosages (for natural supplements) or frequency or duration of use to achieve beneficial effects (for whole body, mind-body or energy approaches) • Examples of safe and effective combinations with other treatments • Comments and warnings about adverse effects and particular treatment combinations that may be unsafe and should be avoided • Duration of treatment needed to achieve beneficial results "James Lake, MD, a pioneer and leader in the integrative mental health movement, provides a practical guide to integrative treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD affects thousands of military personnel exposed to combat, as well as civilians who experience auto accidents, house fires, work-site accidents, exposure to rape or assault, and a host of other painful events. In severe cases PTSD disables individuals from functioning at work and home. Lake provides a link to online inventories to rate the severity of PTSD, and advises frequent self-assessment. He summarizes the best documented integrative therapies to treat PTSD, from Chinese medicines to dance and movement therapy to EEG neurofeedback to meditation and mindfulness approaches to QiGong and Tai Chi to Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to yoga. Lake discusses safe ways to combine integrative therapies, and advises when to try self-help and when to call on a professional. I strongly recommend Dr. Lake's book for any individual suffering with PTSD, and for anyone seeking to assist loved ones with PTSD." Donald Moss, PhD, Dean, College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, Saybrook University, author Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health, Springer Alternative Treatments of PTSD: Safe, Effective and Affordable Approaches and How to Use Them, is part of a series on alternative treatments of mental health problems. Other books cover alternative treatments of the following mental health problems: • Alcohol and Drug Abuse • Anxiety • Bipolar disorder • Dementia and mild cognitive impairment • Depression • Insomnia • Schizophrenia • Substance abuse

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Dr. Lake is a Board certified psychiatrist in private practice in Monterey, California. He has chaired symposia and workshops at APA meetings and other national and international conferences on non-conventional and integrative mental health care. Dr. Lake has served as a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Stanford, and is currently a visiting assistant professor of medicine at University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. He founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Mental Health Care from 2004 through 2010 and was appointed to a special APA Task Force on CAM and integrative medicine. He is currently co-chair of the working group on integrative mental health in the Consortium on Academic Healthcare Centers in Integrative Medicine, and is a founding member and former chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health.

Dr. Lake has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters on integrative medicine and psychiatry. He contributes a regular column on integrative mental health care to Psychiatric Times, and serves on the editorial review boards of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of the Association for Advances in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, and Jour of Clinical Psychiatry.

Dr. Lake is the author or editor of four textbooks on integrative mental health: Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, (with Bob Flaws), Blue Poppy Press, 2000; Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Thieme, 2006; and Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care (co-edited with David Spiegel), American Psychiatric Press, 2007; Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist's Handbook, Norton, 2009; and a series of ebooks titled The Integrative Mental Health Solution. Long-standing interests include the role of culture in mental illness, the philosophy and history of medicine, and the role of consciousness and intentionality in healing.