Shunzo Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture
Healing Images: Connecting with Inner Wisdom
Event ID: EV009623TP
Info: May 28 • Wed • 7:00pm • Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall 012 • Free • For more information, call 956-8246
With: Anees Sheikh
"When I asked Dr. Albert Schweitzer how he accounted for the fact that anyone could possibly expect to become well after having been treated by a witch doctor, he said that I was asking him to divulge a secret that doctors have carried around inside them ever since Hippocrates.
` `But I`ll tell you anyway,` he said, his face still illuminated by that half-smile. `The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason that all of us succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor inside of him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.` ` --- N. Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness (1980), pp 68-69
Mental imagery has occupied an important place in the healing arts of many cultures. In the West, this approach had been relegated to obscurity for a long time, but now once again it is assuming a position of prominence. Many now feel that of all the recent developments in the healing arts, perhaps the most significant one is an increased understanding of the healing potential of imagery, especially its potential to help us connect with our own inner wisdom. It appears that the most effective healer is not in an office but within the psyche of the individual. Imagery has been shown to be an excellent vehicle for accessing our inner healer. Dr. Sheikh provides an understanding of the healing power of imagery through its connection with inner wisdom and shares a number of imagery techniques that have been used successfully for this purpose.
For details on Healing from Within: Guided Imagery Workshop, offered by Outreach College on May 30, see see http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/summer/programs/2008/EVENT-P09624.asp
Anees A. Sheikh, PhD, is professor and former chair of the Department of Psychology at Marquette University and clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Through his guided imagery workshops, he has trained thousands of health professionals around the world. Dr. Sheikh has published numerous journal articles and book chapters and 15 books on imagery and related topics, including: Imagery: Current Theory, Research, and Application; The Psychophysiology of Mental Imagery; Healing East and West; and Handbook of Therapeutic Imagery Techniques. His most recent book (with a foreword by the Dalai Lama) is Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health. Dr. Sheikh is the founding editor of The Journal of Mental Imagery, past president of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, and is internationally recognized for his contributions to the field of imagery.
An Outreach College presentation with funding provided by the Shunzo Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture Endowment.