This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods.

"The story of one man's struggle to bring... two traditions together in his own life.... Often moving as a celebration of spiritual power."
Los Angeles Times

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The Theft of Spirit

The Theft of the Spirit is filled with remarkable stories about spiritual connections. Dr. Hammerschlag shows how to journey past fear and illusion to a new strength of spirit and self. Whether he is telling the story of how the Hopi Indians lost their cultural center when they lost their sacred religious objects, or how brave men and women have faced incredible odds--mental, physical, or emotional--The Theft of the Spirit is compelling and moving reading.

"This book is a treasure. It is about life in all its darkness and illumination. Carl tells us all we need to know in order to heal our life and spirit."
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

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Healing Ceremonies

Healing Ceremonies: Creating Personal Rituals For Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Mental Health

Yale-trained psychiatrist and internationally recognized author, lecturer and healer Carl A. Hammerschlag--a leading proponent of the mind-body-spirit approach to health-- offers a practical, powerful technique for creating personal rituals for health. Written with physician Howard Silverman, this book tells the stories of people who have confronted health problems and life events with powerful ceremonies, and offers step-by-step guidelines for building healing ceremonies of our own.

"Healing Ceremonies should answer a great need in our culture for rituals that help access healing."
Andrew T. Weil, M.D.
Author of Spontaneous Healing

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