Conventional medical science treats the body — including the mind — as a machine.  If parts of the machine fail or become diseased, the standard approach is to treat the malady with chemicals, operate on damaged parts, or destroy unwanted cells with intense radiation.  At times, in the instance of acute trauma, stabilization of bodily functions, or medical emergencies, conventional medical approaches are essential and work.  But for many chronic conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, or auto-immune conditions, these methods fail.  The failure of conventional treatment methods is no more evident than in the area of mental health.  In her new book, Sacred Psychiatry, Dr. Judy Tsafrir, a member of  the faculty at Harvard Medical School, argues that in the place of total reliance upon conventional allopathic treatment methods, psychiatry should focus on a multi-modal (or holistic) approach to improving mental health.  These methods encompass those based on Eastern medicine, archetypal psychology, energy healing, homeopathy, and even astrology. Despite the widespread rejection of these methods by orthodox medical science, Dr. Tsafrir has seen them work on her patients and has altered her  practice accordingly.  Listen in as Philip and Dr. Tsafrir discuss this slow-developing (if not inevitable) paradigm shift in psychiatric care and what it means for the future of mental health.

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