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Techniques Specific for Treating the Psychoses, Personality, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders

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Kunda l in i yoga is an ancient technology of the mind and a clinically proven therapeutic modality that can have profound healing benefits. Following a bevy of recent research studies, yoga has exploded onto the mental health scene, and clinicians and patients alike are embracing the use of yoga and meditation to help combat a wide range of psychi-atric disorders, from the moderate to the more severe. This book—an extension and com-panion to Shannahoff-Khalsa’s Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Personal Growth—expands on the applications of Kundalini yoga meditation to now include the more difficult-to-treat and complex psychiatric disorders, includ-ing the nine variants of the psychoses, the ten APA-defined personality disorders (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antiso-cial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-com-pulsive), autism, Asperger’s disorder, and the very complex and frequent cases of the common multimorbidities. A research scientist, Kundalini yoga teacher for 36 years, and worldwide authority in the field of alternative thera-pies for psychiatric disorders, Shannahoff-Khalsa presents a bounty of never-before-published Kundalini yoga meditation protocols specifically designed for each of these individual psychiatric disorders. He shares 44 different meditation techniques, and a 4-part mini-protocol to help shorten and reduce the severity of hallucinations. He also presents a new symbolism-based approach for helping the personality dis-order patient to more easily accept and undergo therapy; a novel therapeutic approach for treating the schizophrenic patient; and a new approach for treating autism and Asperger’s Disorder patients called “the dance of the heart.” Carefully explaining the yogic per-spective on the etiology of each disorder, and offering real patient case histories to help illuminate the suggested protocols,

Shannahoff-Khalsa also explores the realities and inadequacies of conventional treatment approaches with an up-to-date review of the current scientific literature. He explains the value of Kundalini yoga not only as a potent and vital intervention for the treatment of disorders, but also as a powerful preventative measure and as a new technology for the future. With this comprehensive volume, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psycholo-gists, and social workers—as well as yoga therapists and yoga teachers who have an interest in working with psychiatric patients—are equipped with the tools and techniques necessary to incorporate Kundalini yoga meditation into their prac-tices, and bring new hope and healing to their clients.

DAVID S. SHANNAHOFF-KHALSA is the Director of The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics, BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is affiliated with the UCSD Center for Chronobiology and he is a yogic therapist for the Center for Wellness & Personal Growth, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD. He has published widely in scientific journals and routinely presents full day courses at the American Psychiatric Association, and at other national and international conferences.

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ADVANCE ACCLAIM“The successful use of Kundalini Yoga to treat severe psychiatric illness is one of those disruptive observations that should make us sit up and wonder if we really know as much as we think we do. A first rate scientist and a high order Yogic practitioner and teacher, David Shannahoff-Khalsa draws on one of the world’s great wisdom traditions, providing much that may be of value to patients and practitioners and much that should stimulate further study.”

—John S. March, MD, MPH, Director, Division of Neurosciences Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute, and Professor of Psychiatry

and Psychology, Duke University Medical School

“Our understanding psychopathology and related mind-body states is incomplete. Shannahoff-Khalsa provides a well-informed overview of some of the most chal-lenging disorders and currently available treatments, describing his experience working with severely affected individuals where intensive practice of specific yogic protocols resulted in substantial clinical improvement.”

—James Leckman, MD, Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychology and Pediatrics at Yale, and

Director of Research, Yale Child Study Center

“Most psychiatric disorders are chronic and disabling. Since current treatments often do not provide full symptom remission, additional approaches are needed. In this new book, Shannahoff-Khalsa continues to increase the credibility of Kundalini Yoga as one such approach. The yoga protocols introduced can serve as adjuncts to the treatment of specific psychiatric and personality disorders not explored in his previous books.”

—Eurípedes Miguel, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School, and Coordinator

of the National Institute for Developmental Psychiatry, Brazil

OTHER BOOKS BY DAVID S. SHANNAHOFF-KHALSAKundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders,

Couples Therapy, and Personal Growth

Psychophysiological States: The Ultradian Dynamics of Mind-Body Interactions