Holistic Psychiatry: Possibilities Beyond Conventional Psychiatry
Like Columbus who sailed to the “end of the earth” and showed that the earth was neither flat nor empty beyond those limits, holistic psychiatrists have journeyed beyond the continent of conventional psychiatry and found another realm of possibilities-amazingly rich and promising-in replenishing and restoring the mental health of patients. While the field of psychiatry […]
What is Holistic Psychiatry? Interview on News for the Soul
On February 5, 2005, Dr. Alice Lee was interviewed by News for the Soul on the topic of holistic psychiatry. Please click here to listen to this radio interview: News For the Soul Interview with Alice W. Lee, M.D.
Nutritional Know-how: Ten Essential Principles
There are thousands of nutritional companies each touting their products as being the best. The amount of information on nutritional supplements is overwhelming and almost impossible to navigate. In this maelstrom of options, it is important to follow a few guiding principles on choosing and using nutritional products. For those interested in nutritional supplementation, the […]
Infinite Intention CD – A Groundbreaking Tool for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
Consciousness in Healing & Improvements in CarePhenomenal, groundbreaking, magical, and amazing!Infinite Intention?? is all of these things, and it’s . . . practical! THE MIND CAN HEAL It’s not just a theory. . . You can put it into practice and observe for yourself. Anyone who wants to learn how to do the Infinite Intention?? […]
More or Less Free: Creative Freedom Through Healing the Mind
“I know why you do it,” she said. Sitting outside a Greek restaurant on a late spring day, I was chatting, with a friend of over 25 years, about my work as an orthomolecular psychiatrist, catching her up on the highlights over the past six months. “Why?” I asked, wondering if she knew me well […]
On Maslow and Medicine
For the January, 2008 newsletter, I had a great idea for an article. It was to be called “Synopsis of Simple Truths.” I was all excited about sharing and compiling the wonderful ideas and concepts I had learned over the years since I began using orthomolecular and energy medicine in my psychiatric practice. These simple […]
Heroes and Heroines: Patients that Make the Work Worthwhile
Sometimes, people ask me whether being a psychiatrist is a depressing job. On a tough day, I would say that it is. On those days, I would envy the baggers in the grocery store–how nice to have the task of putting groceries in a bag for someone! I’m sure that bagging groceries would also have […]
Too Easy: Teaching the Realities of Energy Medicine
For years I racked my brains for a solution. How can I teach patients about the reality of something that cannot be touched or seen and is beyond the range of sensory perception? Energy medicine: how do I prove to my patients that it exists and that it works–in their first session with me? The […]
A Breakthrough in Medication Withdrawal
The clues came in small bits over the years–patterns seen in patients that at first seemed disconnected, began to have a temporal pattern associated with certain types of medication being withdrawn, and later pointed to possible underlying causes. Following these clues over the years has been a feat worthy of Sherlock Holmes. But eventually, I […]
On Rooms and Roaming
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heartand try to love the questions themselvesas if they were locked rooms . . .the point is, to live everything.Live the questions now.Perhaps then, someday far in the future,you will gradually, without even noticing it,live your way into the answer.”From Letters to a Young Poet Leaning back in […]