La Medicina Complementare nella Pratica Clinica

Abstract

This almost 500 page elegant and colorful book comes from the long-standing experience of the authors, Drs Merati and Mantellini. Both are psychotherapists holding MDs who further trained in a variety of aspects dealing with CAM. In particular, Dr Merati is chief of a rather unique Psychosomatic Medicine outpatient clinic within a well-respected public hospital in Milano and connected with the Department of Internal Medicine. Here, also under the ‘psychosomatic lens’, patients with organic diseases are visited with ‘the disease seen as a peculiar language of the body and the symptom as its message’ (Introduction, page I, Dr Merati). The mission of the book is clearly stated in the title, i.e. CAM in Clinical Practice, and it first displays the theoretical basis and rationales behind the clinical application of the main CAM techniques through a number of sections written by experts working in the hospital-clinic.