Holism

perform surgery and practice in specialty areas. Alternative medicine refers to alternative medical care other than traditional medicine. The terms alternative and complementary medicine are part of a larger system of treatment holistic medicine. Holism embodies the philosophy of treating the whole person, integrating mind, body and spirit (Madel, 2009). The idea is the three elements of being are to be treated together to heal, rather than merely treating the person for a specific illness or…

Critical realism focuses around the anti-positivist philosophy of science established by Roy Bhaskar and has challenged some of the core theories associated with political explanation and science. One of the main contributions of critical realism is its focus on causal analysis, which as a contested concept, has challenged twentieth-century thoughts about political science and further International Relations, thus challenging the positivist thinking associated with the era. Critical realism…

Section 1 Graves and Maslow Mind Sonar uses the ‘Graves drives’ to measure what someone treasures important. The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy, ‘self-actualization’, appropriate right in with the usual views of the seventies and Maslow’s motivation theory was well-appreciated. In Graves’ opinion this model did not offer a comprehensive enough base for understanding man as a bio-psycho-social-cultural being. He expected that human comportment was not strong-minded by separate needs alone,…

In the second half of the 20th century the African-American population managed to pave the way for a proper self-representation after a long period of actual non-representation of non-whiteness, which contradicts the topos of the crazy quilt of humanity (c.f. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man). Before that time many Caucasians refused to recognise the African culture as it didn't harmonise with the Eurocentric philosophy. From the point of the white master narrative the literary efforts of black…

Unlike many other perspectives, Humanism/Existentialism is person-centered and less complex. Believing phenomenology and holism is essential to understanding that man is both conscious and unconscious, more subjective than objective. While directing the person to look inside for solace, inner peace, and self-empowerment. Humanism emphases goodness of humankind and employs features of positive psychology for inconstancies of personality and behavior. Aspects of positive psychology promote…

compassion.” Adlerian Psychology Alfred Adler, the Vienne 's psychologist of the early 1900s was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and the father of Individual Psychology. Adler’s emphasis was on holism and he treated his patients as “whole persons.” He saw the importance of holism as it pertained to the development of human beings. Adler believed that individuals developed a story about themselves in early childhood and he called this “the lifestyle.” The lifestyle guides…

Apartheid was a racial segregation system that happened in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. Non-white people were prevented from living with white people and voting (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). This seems to be a clear case of racism and discrimination that assumed people should be treated according to their skin colour. Sometimes, lack of information about how cultural or environmental aspects may define customs and characteristics can lead to racism and discrimination. In contrast,…

Indigenous peoples, particularly Indigenous women, have had a long-standing struggle fighting against neo-colonial societies that seek to underpin the self-determination of Indigenous land and bodies. In this essay, I shall analyse the article “Our Bodies, Our Communities, Our Self-Determination” by Winona LaDuke through a feminist technoscience lens, and argue that Indigenous environmental conservation practices are long standing form of technology that can be used to resist harmful…

of success. Overall, what is happening on Earth is that matter is becoming ordered into larger wholes. So the theme or meaning or purpose of life is the ordering or integration or, a process that is driven by the physical law of Negative Entropy. ‘Holism’, which the dictionary defines as ‘the tendency in nature to form wholes’ and ‘teleology’, which is defined as ‘the belief that purpose and design are a part of nature’, are both terms that recognise this ‘tendency’ towards integration. Personal…

The Nuclear Family Family in its most simplistic form is defined as; “a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household” (Oxford dictionary). In terms of the nuclear family (the typical family with a mother, a father and a few children), this definition fits perfectly. Unfortunately, times have changed and the nuclear family is no longer the ideal. The modern family is continuously changing and now, there is a greater diversity of people which makes for a greater…