(10) An MD’s Path to Alternative Medicine and Guided
Imagery [0.50 hr CE
Credit]
Presenter:
Dieter Kallinke, MD,
Dipl.Psych.
Objectives: Participants
completing this presentation will be able to:
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Evaluate when and how to use Smucker's Imagery Rescripting
- techniques.
- Encourage "salutogenesis" to stimulate the body's maximum self-healing potential.
- Explain how survivors of successful medical interventions can find ways to really survive in terms of a meaningful life.
Description: While conventionally trained in both medicine and clinical psychology, Dr. Kallinke’s long involvement in rehabilitation and pain medicine (as well as concerns about his own illnesses) led him to “look over the fences” of mainstream therapies and to deeply study a variety of alternative approaches.
These include acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, homeopathy, several body therapies (including Feldenkrais, Selver work, martial arts, kinesiology, and posturology), Buddhist meditation approaches, and psychological trauma therapies, including EMDR and EFT.
His experiences with Smucker’s Imagery Rescripting introduced him to the importance of imagery when working through past traumatizing painful experiences. While still respecting medical knowledge about pathogenesis, Dr. Kallinke has also developed an increasing trust in “salutogenesis,” the body’s self-healing potential using inner helping agents (e.g., inner advisors, mentors) that can provide images or ideomotor answers to our greatest health concerns and questions.
During this presentation, he will share many of his personal experiences in exploring the world of alternative medicine, and the conclusions he has reached as a result.