by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Let’s follow up on our last post (https://www.bowencollege.com/psychiatrys-role-in-the-suppression-of-emotional-symptoms/) on the history of psychiatry. It is interesting to note that both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) and DSM-II,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
The history of psychiatric medicine offers an illustrative example of just the kind of Cartesian-based misunderstandings about the mind-body connection that leads to ideas about emotional suppression which I discussed in my last post...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last couple posts (https://www.bowencollege.com/insights-from-gabor-mate-on-emotions-and-health/) I discussed the implications of the faulty assumption that somehow people suppressed their emotions. We’ve seen why this doesn’t make sense and can’t be true....
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In another post (https://www.bowencollege.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-emotional-suppression/) I addressed the widespread myth of emotional suppression or repression and explained how this construct misunderstood and misrepresented the healing process and health...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my other post (https://www.bowencollege.com/emotional-release-and-good-health/) we explored the idea of suppression. The body is not equipped to suppress itself. Illness is either expressed through signs and symptoms or released through elimination or...
