'Alternative Medicine and Wellness Techniques: 14 Paths to Integral Health' (Scholarly Articles, Vol. 3)-2017 Revised, Updated and Reformatted Edition-is a scholarly article that outlines 14 alternative pathways or practices for achieving holistic health. When the author speaks about 'holistic' health, he conveys that these practices and techniques do not only cure the symptoms of a disease but also gradually but definitely remove the underlying cause of the illness.The 14 pathways outlined in the book are Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy, Kirlian Photography, Kyodo, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Qigong. Radionics, Reiki, Sophrology, Tai Chi Chuan, Tibetan Medicine and Yoga.Before he discusses the various pathways to holistic health, the author relates to the reader why he wrote this book, namely as a result of large-scale medical abuse and malpractice suffered by himself, his mother, and his wife, over several years. He then also outlines how he found a way out of 'business medicine' into 'real medicine' by relocating to South-East Asia in 1996, where he lives ever since.As Chinese medicine, next to Ayurveda, is not only the oldest of these medical, sportive or meditative practices, the author has put a particular focus upon it, explaining the basic tenets and principles, such as the duality of Yin and Yang, the two complementary energies of every organism, and the theory of the Five Elements. The book comes with illustrations and a complete Bibliography. It is the third volume in a series of Scholarly Articles the author intends to publish in the near future.
About the Author: Parallel to an international law career in Germany, Switzerland and the United States, Dr. Peter Fritz Walter (Pierre) focused upon fine art, cookery, astrology, musical performance, social sciences and humanities. He started writing essays as an adolescent and received a high school award for creative writing and editorial work for the school magazine. After finalizing his law diplomas, he graduated with an LL.M. in European Integration at Saarland University, Germany, and with a Doctor of Law title from University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1987. He then took courses in psychology at the University of Geneva and interviewed a number of psychotherapists in Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. His interest was intensified through a hypnotherapy with an Ericksonian American hypnotherapist in Lausanne. This led him to the recovery and healing of his inner child. In 1986, he met the late French psychotherapist and child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto (1908-1988) in Paris and interviewed her. A long correspondence followed up to their encounter which was considered by the curators of the Dolto Trust interesting enough to be published in a book alongside all of Dolto's other letter exchanges by Gallimard Publishers in Paris, in 2005. After a second career as a corporate trainer and personal coach, Pierre retired as a full-time writer, philosopher and consultant. His nonfiction books emphasize a systemic, holistic, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective, while his fiction works and short stories focus upon education, philosophy, perennial wisdom, and the poetic formulation of an integrative worldview. Pierre is a German-French bilingual native speaker and writes English as his 4th language after German, Latin and French. He also reads source literature for his research works in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch. In addition, Pierre has notions of Thai, Khmer, Chinese and Japanese. All of Pierre's books are hand-crafted and self-published, designed by the author. Pierre publishes via his Delaware company, Sirius-C Media Galaxy LLC, and under the imprints of IPUBLICA and SCM (Sirius-C Media). Pierre's Amazon Author Page http: //www.amazon.com/Peter-Fritz-Walter/e/B00M2QN4SU Pierre's Blog https: //medium.com/@pierrefwalter/publications/