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Title: Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology, Energy and Chinese Medicine by Leon Hammer, Ted Kaptchuk ISBN: 0-88268-133-8 Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderfully rich and palatable sketch..........
Comment: I have read this book a few times, and in each reading, I find concepts and "observations", that are profoundly rich in their effort to put the reader in touch with some of the most difficult to grasp ideas about non-Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dr. Hammers background is much deeper and wider than what is taught in the schools here and in China. (If you don't know what I mean by that, explore what happened to the practice of indigenous Chinese Medicine during the cultural revolution.)
This is not a book for folks who are unfamiliar with the basic "tenets" of Chinese Medicine. It is a bit more "esoteric" in it's reach, and really tries to conceptualize "in the minds eye" relationships and interactions, energetically or "psychologically" if you prefer, that the TCM model attempts to form poorly, or not at all.
I must, respectfully, take the reviewer from Seattle to task about it being "dark". I certainly know what he means, but the only way to find fault in the extremes of the book, is if you didn't happen to read Dr. Hammers admission within the book, that he has exaggerated the conditions he describes, and that the patients are not real people. Rather, they are constructs of clients, created for the sake of fleshing out the concepts presented in the book. Though sometimes portions need a re-read, I just can't find fault with Dr. Hammer for doing what he suggests I should be aware he is going to do.
As another reviewer has said, this is one you'll return to over and over. A most wonderful book!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Five Elements and Psychology
Comment: I bought this book as a first year acupuncture student and have referred to it many times. As the other reviewer says, it is quite dark and does discuss extremes, but then mental illness is about extremes. It is really useful to look at the extreme yin or yang aspect of an Element and its Officals to fully understand how the Element can manifest when out of balance. I don't know of any other book which provides such an in depth picture of each of the 5 Element types. Sounds heavy, but is in fact relatively easy to read if you have a reasonable understanding of psychology. Definately one of my top 5 Chinese Medicine books, this is a book that you read again and again.
Rating: 2
Summary: Two stars for five element book (that's a pun ;-)
Comment: With the caveat that I'm not a practitioner, but merely a reasonably well-informed patient, I found this book overly **dark.** It was interesting, to a point, but also scary, and always tending towards the negative. I think the fact that the author is a psychiatrist may have something to do with that, but it seemed to take the exaggerated form of any of the five element's characteristics and show what it would look like, taken to the ultimate extreme--and, somehow, that was always bad. While I found a superbly fitting description of a difficult person in my life that helped me get some perspective on him by reading this book, at the same time, when I read items about my own element, I found them exaggerated and bizarre; as they would be in mental illness but not in real life. Apparently the author is almost "psychic" about being able to uncover the health-based Achille's heel in his patients, but I didn't find reading about it a nourishing or uplifting experience. Not that a book has to be, but this one was uniformly dark, and I had to believe that came from the author's perspective, and was no accident. Odd!
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Title: The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted J. Kaptchuk ISBN: 0809228408 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Extraordinary Vessels by Kiiko Matsumoto, Stephen Birch, Robert L. Felt ISBN: 0912111356 Publisher: Paradigm Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Chinese Pulse Diagnosis: A Contemporary Approach by Leon Hammer ISBN: 0939616254 Publisher: Eastland Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Five Elements and Ten Stems: Nan Ching Theory, Diagnostics and Practice by Kiiko Matsumoto, Stephen Birch, Robert L. Felt ISBN: 0912111259 Publisher: Paradigm Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists by Giovanni Maciocia ISBN: 0443039801 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
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