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About Dr. Gersten

 

Dr. Dennis Gersten is a medical doctor and diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His current practice and philosophy evolved out of the realization of the limitations of both clinical psychiatry and medicine. Psychiatry did not promise enough. Treatment took too long and the results of psychotherapy and medication were not satisfying or as profound as he had believed they would be, based on his training. Dr. Gersten began searching for better ways to help his patients shortly after he went into clinical practice in 1978. His personal research soon led him to the wealth of information and technologies in the field of mind-body medicine.

The first of the mind-body tools that Dr. Gersten studied and later wrote extensively about were meditation and guided imagery. His personal research dramatically accelerated when he came down with a severe case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1984. At that time, there was no name or diagnosis for this illness. His personal healing crisis led him to explore Traditional Western Medicine, Oriental Medicine, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Electro-Magnetic Medicine, Chiropractic, Massage, and many more. When he learned about amino acid supplementation, he found the first real ray of hope for ever recovering. In fact, amino acid therapy helped him recover his life. Along the way, he learned how to integrate mind-body technologies, such as guided imagery into his clinical practice, so that he could work with each patient's body, mind, and spirit. Tapping the power of the mind to assist in physical illness is central to the work he does, as is helping each patient tap a greater power by finding their own sense of spirituality, their own God or Higher Power, and their deeper meaning and purpose for being alive.

Over these twenty years, Dr. Gersten has formulated his own concept and practice of healing, bringing together the best of mind-body technologies, the best of scientific amino acid supplementation, and the best of Western medicine. This is where he begins with his patients &emdash; providing information, dedication, inspiration, technology - and insisting that his patients be active participants in their own healing process, and not by-standers in their own life.

Here is a list that summarizes his work and writing:

1. Publisher: "Atlantis, the Imagery Newsletter" which has come out bimonthly since 1989. Twenty-seven of the top people in the US and Canada serve as contributing editors to Atlantis, including: Bernie Siegel, M.D., O. Carl Simonton, M.D., Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Larry Dossey, M.D., Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D., Barbara Dossey, R.N., M.S., Peter Jensen, Ph.D., Janet Quinn, R.N., Ph.D. Currently, Atlantis is entirely on-line.

2. Founder: The Gersten Institute for Higher Medicine. The Gersten Institute is partially a large internet resource, a Virtual Institute, with 500 pages on line, as well as a physical location in the San Diego, CA area.

3. Author: ARE YOU GETTING ENLIGHTENED OR LOSING YOUR MIND?: How to Manage Everyday and Extraordinary Spiritual Experience. 1997 (Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House).

4. Author: "The POW Survival Guide" &emdash; written for the Allied troops of Operation Desert Storm. This booklet has been picked up as part of the Navy and Army SERE training programs (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape) at Coronado, CA and Fort Bragg. A presentation, given for the Navy, was videotaped and is now part of their training program. "The POW Survival Guide" is now on display at the American POW Museum in Georgia.

5. Author: "Healing the Healer: One Minute Imagery Rituals."

6. Author: "Cancer Coping Strategies." (Pamphlet).

7. Author: "From Fear to Hope: Cancer Day One." (Pamphlet).

8. Author: "Alternative Health Care: Cost Effectiveness." Prepared for and delivered to Hillary Rodham Clinton during the first White House meeting of Alternative Health Care practitioners.

9. Radio talk show host for "The Open Mind," which was broadcast throughout 1997. Dr. Gersten's guests included: Bernie Siegel, M.D., Larry Dossey, M.D., Christiane Northrup, M.D., Gary Zukav, Peter Jensen, Ph.D., Dan Clark, M.D., Candace Pert, M.D., William Sears, M.D., David John Oates, and Claire Sylvia.

Rodale Press/Prevention Magazine

10. Chief Advisor on Guided Imagery: "Choices in Natural Healing." Rodale Press.

11. Contributor: "The Prevention How-To Dictionary of Healing Remedies and Techniques." Rodale Press.

12. Contributor: "Symptoms &emdash; Their Causes & Cures." Rodale Press.

13. Contributor: "Age Erasers for Women." Rodale Press.

14. Contributor: "Age Erasers for Men." Rodale Press.

15. Contributor: "Disease Free." Rodale Press.

16. Contributor: "Energy Forever." Rodale Press.

17. Contributor: "Age Protectors." Rodale Press.

Dr. Gersten has consulted on 13 books for Rodale Press, some soon to be published.

18. Member, Editorial Board: "The International Journal of Healing and Caring." Publisher: Daniel Benor, M.D.

19. Clinical practice specializing in Brief Spiritual Psychotherapy and Nutritional Medicine, with a focus on Amino Acid Therapy.

The nineteen items you've just read about on this page, were accomplished by Dr. Gersten long AFTER he came down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

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