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Gladys Louise McGarey (née Taylor, November 30, 1920 – September 28, 2024) was an American holistic physician and medical activist. Over her career, McGarey promoted better childbirth practices, holistic medicine, and acupuncture through her medical practice, speeches, and books.
Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. [2]The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science, and Lebensreform.
The words aceology and iamatology are obscure and obsolete synonyms referring to the study of therapies. The English word therapy comes via Latin therapīa from Ancient Greek: θεραπεία and literally means "curing" or "healing". [1] The term therapeusis is a somewhat archaic doublet of the word therapy.
The term psychotherapy is derived from Ancient Greek psyche (ψυχή meaning "breath; spirit; soul") and therapeia (θεραπεία "healing; medical treatment"). The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "The treatment of disorders of the mind or personality by psychological means...", however, in earlier use, it denoted the treatment of disease through hypnotic suggestion.
Mental health prevention is defined as intervening to minimize mental health problems (i.e. risk factors) by addressing determinants of mental health problems before a specific mental health problem has been identified in the individual, group, or population of focus with the ultimate goal of reducing the number of future mental health problems ...
Dr. Clar explains that the reason why word games are good for brain health is because they can improve attention, verbal fluency, memory and processing speed—all skills that can decline with age.
Getting better sleep leads to even more health benefits. Russell and Shapira both point out that people who don’t get good-quality sleep are more likely to make unhealthy diet decisions and less ...
An expert panel at a conference hosted in 1995 by the US Office for Alternative Medicine (OAM), [66] [n 9] devised a theoretical definition [66] of alternative medicine as "a broad domain of healing resources ... other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health system of a particular society or culture in a given historical period ...