Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies
Author: David J Owen
"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it." — Samuel Johnson
The Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies helps you find reliable online resources for the information you need about herbs used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including cancer, heart disease, depression, and AIDS. This easy-to-use consumer guide will help you steer clear of misleading— and potentially harmful— information that often amounts to nothing more than a thinly veiled product advertisement, as you search for the accurate and up-to-date news, facts, and advice that are out there— if you know where to look.
Author David J. Owen, whose previous book, The Herbal Internet Companion: Herbs and Herbal Medicine Online (Haworth) won the 2002 International Herb Association Book Award, guides you through Web sites, mailing lists, listservs, newsgroups, and databases to uncover safe and sound health information that's aimed at specific conditions and specific populations; there's even a chapter on herbs for pets! You'll find the information you need on the safety and effectiveness of herbal remedies, current laws and regulations governing their use, and the basics of botany, including how herbs are named and what parts of the plants are used.
Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies provides the information you need on:
decoding herbal product labels
general and CAM Web sites
PubMed (MEDLINE)
Google versus PubMed
Web sites that discuss side effects and herb-drug interactions
consumer awareness Web sites
Web sites for specific diseases and conditions
Web sites for specific populations
Web addresses, browsers, and navigating Websites
and much more!
Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies also includes helpful tables, figures, and screen captures from Web sites. This book is essential for anyone looking for safe and reliable information online.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Martha J. Greenberg, PhD(Pace University)
Description:This terrific little book is packed with useful guidance for consumers wishing to find reliable information on herbs and herbal remedies on the Internet. It discusses navigating sites, finding and using e-discussion groups, and accessing commercial and medical sites for herbal information and evidence.
Purpose:It is intended as a guide to the best online resources for herbal information. The author presents web sites, search tools, listservs, databases, and chat rooms that will help consumers (and healthcare professionals) find reliable information on safety and effectiveness of many herbs.
Audience:Consumers and healthcare professional alike are bound to find this book very useful. It is user friendly for both the novice and sophisticated Internet user. The author has expertise in library and knowledge management, holds an appointment in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, and has previously published on herbal medicine online.
Features:The book takes a simple approach to the Internet, starting with Internet basics and web navigation. Included is material on understanding web addresses and browsers, even tips to enlarge text to avoid eyestrain! The book moves through chat rooms and discussion groups into specific web sites on herbs. Medical and governmental web sites are emphasized, because of their scientific information. Herbal safety and efficacy and certain diseases and conditions where herbal treatment may be useful are included.
Assessment:I know of no other comparable resource and highly recommend this gem of a book!
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Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message
Author: Jeffrey Roth
Learn what it's like to be a member of an addiction recovery group!
Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message is NOT a self-help book. Instead, it's a rare opportunity to sit in on a virtual therapy group and take part in a virtual Twelve Step meeting. The book's unique perspective lets you compare and contrast the experience of participating in a psychotherapy group and a Twelve Step group, including an examination of the Twelve Steps and The Twelve Traditions. The book demystifies the process of recovery, demonstrating all the important elements of the group process, including free association, resistance, transference, re-enactment, boundary management, interpretation, and confrontation. Rather than relate shared stories of addicts in recovery or present abstract formulations on the group experience, Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction takes you inside the experiential process of recovery that can't be achieved in isolation. Your experience as a group "member" will help solve the mystery of the group process and provide you with insight into the scientific elements of recovery as the book builds a bridge between the Twelve Step programs and a psychoanalytic model of group functioning. Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction examines:- how the group carries the message of recovery
- the higher power of the group as a symbol of authority
- the development of prayer and meditation as group analytic functions
- addiction as a family disease
- making amends as an export process
- powerlessness and free association
- unmanageability and resistance
- surrender and transference
- inventory and re-enactments
- humility and working through
- The Twelve Steps and The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
- and much more!
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Patricia E. Murphy, PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book offers a creative approach to providing information about group process in the treatment of addiction. Rather than providing information in a cognitive manner, the author invites the reader to enter into a group of first person participants.
Purpose: Arising from a theory that addiction is a disease of isolation, the book's aim is to support an understanding of the primary role of group therapy in treatment. The style of the book allows the reader to enter into a group process and to learn from experience. For those willing to engage in this type of learning, the book is a great text.
Audience: The author makes clear that this is not a self-help book. Rather, it is a book intended for the use of those who work with persons who have addictions.
Features: The book has a unique style of asking the reader to join a group. Different fonts for each participant allow a conversation without the interruption of indicating the speaker. Some who are academically inclined might prefer a book based more on research. On the other hand, the professional who might not have time to attend a recovery group could develop helpful insights from the book's informal, though well developed approach.
Assessment: At first, the varied fonts seem off-putting. The reader might not bother to go any farther than leafing or flipping through the pages. However, spending time with this group is very educational. The author's well-reasoned approach and the clear description of the application of this method of healing makes this an extraordinary book that is apt to be of interest to those with education in psychiatry as well as to those with a less technical background.
Rating
3 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Ch. 1 | Addiction as a family disease | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | How the group carries the message of recovery | 19 |
| Ch. 3 | Powerlessness and free association | 29 |
| Ch. 4 | Unmanageability and resistance | 39 |
| Ch. 5 | The higher power of the group as a symbol of authority | 47 |
| Ch. 6 | Surrender and transference | 59 |
| Ch. 7 | Inventory and reenactment | 73 |
| Ch. 8 | Humility and working through | 85 |
| Ch. 9 | Making amends as an export process | 97 |
| Ch. 10 | Continuing the inventory and "self-analysis" | 109 |
| Ch. 11 | The development of prayer and meditation as group analytic functions | 121 |
| Ch. 12 | The twelve traditions : boundaries and containment | 133 |
| App. A | Twelve steps of alcoholics anonymous | 155 |
| App. B | Twelve traditions of alcoholics anonymous | 157 |
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