Solutions from the World's Great Health
Traditions and Practitioners

Edited by James Strohecker, Executive Editor,
Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide
and Nancy Shaw Strohecker



  • Table of Contents

  • Foreword by Leo Galland, MD

  • Many Paths to Healing Depression

  • Chapter Summaries

  • Contributors

  • What Others Are Saying

  • About James & Nancy Strohecker

  • To Order Book from Amazon.com




         $15.95         352 pages    
         Perigee Books - Out of print



    Contributions from Nine Pioneers in Alternative Medicine:
  • David Bresler, Ph.D.
  • Carlos Warter, MD, Ph.D.
  • Hyla Cass, MD
  • Melvyn Werbach, MD
  • Roger Hirsh, OMD
  • Jacquelyn Wilson, MD
  • Shri Mishra, MD
  • Janet Zand, OMD, L.Ac.
  • Joseph Pizzorno, ND
  • Empowering New Approaches for Treating Depression
    Depression is an imbalance that affects body, mind and spirit. Its pervasive consequences demand inclusive holistic treatment. In this comprehensive guide, nine nationally known experts from a wide range of alternative/complementary therapies offer exciting new solutions for relieving depression by treating the whole person—because depression cannot be healed by antidepressants alone.

  • Many Paths to Healing Depression: Introduction by James Strohecker

  • The Natural Pharmacy: herbal remedies from valerian to St. John's Wort
  • Nutritional Therapy: dietary factors, vitamins, minerals & amino acids
  • Naturopathic Medicine: a comprehensive natural program
  • Homeopathy: natural remedies for anxiety & depression
  • Mind-Body Approach: depression as emotional pain
  • Women and Depression:an integrated, holistic approach
  • Ayurveda: dietary therapies, detoxification and other ancient techniques
  • Qigong & Chinese Medicine: ancient exercises for vitality and longevity
  • Spiritual Transformation: the process of psychospiritual integration




    James Strohecker is an e-health pioneer and wellness visionary, who has focused on bringing fundamental wellness principles from the world's great healing and wellbeing traditions into mainstream cultural awareness for over 30 years. Co-founder of healthy.net, the world's first Internet network for complementary/alternative medicine and wellness (now entering its' 14th year), he is co-creator of the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program (www.WellPeople.com) and the Wellness Inventory Coach Certification Training (www.WellPeople.com/Certify.pdf). He was co-founder of the world's first business-to-business Internet network for the natural products industry, originally a subsidiary of HealthWorld Online.

    He was founding vice president of Future Medicine Publishing, and served as executive editor of the best-selling Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide (over 600,000 copies sold).    View more

    Nancy Shaw Strohecker, a publicist and media consultant, was a contributing writer to Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, and has edited and collaborated on numerous books in health and psychology.