Dementia - Anthroposophical Perspectives (Halle Judith von)(Paperback)

Dementia, a broad category of brain diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, affects millions of people worldwide. Although its impact is focused primarily on populations of Western countries, orthodox medicine has been unable to discover the causes of dementia, let alone develop successful treatments or a cure. Given the situation, there are good reasons to investigate the psycho-spiritual factors connected to the increasing frequency of the illness. As the author states in her preface, The conception of man that is given priority today by the scientific world hardly takes into account that, in addition to the physical-material component for which certain degenerative or pathological processes can be determined with the help of technical apparatus, there are other components of his being to be taken into account which cannot be investigated in that way. So long as the
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