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Integrative Psychiatry :

Integrative Psychiatry :. The Power of Symbolic Imagery Sudha Prathikanti, MD. Integrative Psychiatry a healing paradigm that uses both conventional and complementary medicine approaches in the treatment of psychiatric conditions. . Integrative Psychiatry Treatment Plan.

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Integrative Psychiatry :

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  1. Integrative Psychiatry : The Power of Symbolic Imagery Sudha Prathikanti, MD

  2. Integrative Psychiatrya healing paradigm that uses both conventional and complementary medicine approaches in the treatment of psychiatric conditions.

  3. Integrative Psychiatry Treatment Plan . Conventional Psychotherapies • Conventional Pharmaceuticals • Botanical/Herbal Remedies • Vitamins and Dietary Supplements • Nutritional Counseling • Yoga and Exercise • Meditation and Relaxation • Acupuncture • Guided Visualization • Use of Symbolic Imagery • Mandala Drawing • Dreamwork • Myths and Fairytales

  4. Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.-Carl Jung

  5. The human mind is functioning symbolically when some components of its experience [the symbols] elicit consciousness, beliefs, emotions, and images respecting other components of its experience [the meaning of the symbols]-Alfred North Whitehead

  6. It seems clear that we cannot distinguish reality from our symbolization of it. Being human, we can think only in symbols, only make sense of any experience in symbols. -Robert Bellah

  7. VISUAL SYMBOLS:YIN-YANG

  8. VISUAL SYMBOLS:SWASTIKA

  9. 2 VISUAL SYMBOLS: MATH E = mc

  10. Icons are the visible but disguised tracks of archetypes. -Carl Jung

  11. Archetype as Figure • The Earth Mother • The Divine Child

  12. Archetype as Process • The Hero’s Journey • The Descent into the Underworld

  13. The primordial image, or archetype…constantlyrecurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. -Carl Jung

  14. The Goddess in India: Saraswati

  15. The Goddess in India:Lakshmi

  16. The Goddess in India:Kali

  17. CASE DISCUSSION:One woman’s encounter with the Divine Feminine

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