Michael A. Jawer - Your emotional type : key to the therapies that will work for you

YOUR EMOTIONAL TYPE

Your Emotional Type may be the Rosetta Stone weve been waiting fora code for matching a particular therapy to a particular patient. Micozzi and Jawer... have found gold.

LARRY DOSSEY, M.D., AUTHOR OF HEALING WORDS:
THE POWER OF PRAYER AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND
THE POWER OF PREMONITIONS

Your Emotional Type, securely grounded in scientific research affirming the inseparable unity of mind and body, enables readers to understand how their own personalities may make them prone to a wide variety of health conditions, from chronic fatigue to hypertension, from migraine to fibromyalgia. Most helpfully, the authors guide people to the therapies most appropriate to each personality type. The book is empowering, helping us to become active agents in our healing rather than being simply the recipients of cures from a medical approach that fails to recognize the uniqueness of individuals.

GABOR MAT, M.D., AUTHOR OF WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO:
EXPLORING THE STRESS-DISEASE CONNECTION

Your Emotional Type is a very useful guide for anyone in search of therapies best suited to their bodymind type, their style of handing strong feelings, and the nature of their health problems. In particular, the thin-to-thick boundary scalea unique window on personality typeoffers a valuable framework for helping people choose among the array of complementary and alternative therapies.

DEANE JUHAN, AUTHOR OF
JOBS BODY: A HANDBOOK FOR BODYWORK

A much-needed guide to the fundamental connection between emotions and common physical and mental ailmentsand what to do about them.

MIRIAM GREENSPAN, THERAPIST IN PRIVATE PRACTICE AND
AUTHOR OF HEALING THROUGH THE DARK EMOTIONS

By helping patients understand the connection between their personality type, their symptoms, and treatment choices, Jawer and Micozzi help patients become more informed consumers of alternative health care.

ILENE A. SERLIN, PSYCHOLOGIST AND
DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPIST

Easy to read and articulate, Your Emotional Type could become an important and clinically useful work.

ERNEST HARTMANN, M.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY, TUFTS
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND AUTHOR OF BOUNDARIES:
A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT THE WORLD AND BOUNDARIES IN THE
MIND: A NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to thank Ernest Hartmann, first and foremost, for supporting our desire to apply his boundaries concept to chronic illness and to complementary and alternative therapies. We also gratefully acknowledge Deane Juhan for his embrace of the books content and his outstanding foreword; Larry Dossey, Gabor Mat, Ken Pelletier, and Ilene Serlin for their enthusiastic endorsement of the material; and Joel Isaacs of Bodynamic Institute USA for his permission to reprint the bodymap used in figure 1 at the back of the book.

Michael Jawer would like to thank his cherished wife, Bonnie, whose enthusiasm and on-point critiques throughout the books development were highly welcomed; their kids, Gabrielle and Bradley, who insisted on completing the short-form Boundary Questionnaire themselves; and his parents, Helene and Robert Jawer, for teaching him (though he didnt know it at the time) all about boundaries. Their example, as human beings, parents, and unique (yet compatible) individuals, continues to be an inspiration.

Marc Micozzi would like to acknowledge with gratitude his many colleagues who have reviewed the CAM therapies addressed in this book and whose published work provided a basis for our analysis. He also thanks professors Adi Haramati and Hakima Amri of the CAM program at Georgetown Universitys School of Medicine, where we lectured on boundaries and administered the short-form Boundary Questionnaire. And thanks to his daughter, Alicia, for completing the questionnaire and making helpful suggestions.

At Inner Traditions/Healing Arts Press we acknowledge Jon Graham, acquisitions editor, and John Hays, director of marketing, for their early recognition of the promise of this project; and Chanc VanWinkle Orzell, project editor. We also wish to thank Marilyn Allen for her constructive questions that helped flesh out the application of boundaries to personality and CAM treatment type.

FOREWORD

People in the United States who are seeking relief from chronic and debilitating health problems, or who want to improve their overall health, are currently investing over $34 billion annually for alternative treatments and approaches that are not offered by mainstream medicine. This expenditure is a dramatic endorsement of complementary and alternative therapies and their effectiveness in addressing a wide variety of physical, emotional, and behavioral problems that seriously interfere with our well-being.

A large number of chronic maladies that plague our modern lives are not the result of germs, faulty genes, or specific traumas. They are developmental in nature, with their roots in our emotional lives. The denial of strong feelingsa process that often takes place completely outside of conscious awarenesscan lead to serious disturbances in our bodies natural processes. The result is a wide array of symptoms and conditions that seriously compromise our ability to enjoy healthy and productive lives. Many of these ills are disappointingly unresponsive to the typical allopathic approaches of pharmaceuticals or surgery.

The vast amount of clinical research devoted to the investigation of alternative health care approaches that have demonstrated their effectiveness is not well known by the general public. Nor do many people know how to assess which kinds of therapy or practice might best serve their needs. Your Emotional Type is an extremely useful resource for finding ones way to the kinds of treatments that offer significantand often dramatichelp to people who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems. These conditions include allergies and asthma, chronic pain and fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine headache, phantom pain, rheumatoid arthritis, the skin conditions of eczema and psoriasis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Your Emotional Type succinctly reviews the relevant research on complementary and alternative medical approaches that have been proven to alleviate these difficulties. Most of all, it allows you to determine which kind of treatment might be the most useful to you, based upon your emotional type, your style of handling strong feelings, and the nature of your health problems. Your Emotional Type provides much-needed clarity for those who have not found relief and do not know where to turn.

DEANE JUHAN

Deane Juhan is a practitioner of the Trager Approach and an instructor at the Trager Institute and has developed a series of seminars for all varieties of body-workers and therapists, which he presents thoughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. His previous work as a bodyworker and instructor at Esalen from 1973 to 1990 was his first exposure to the dramatic improvements in a wide variety of conditions that resulted from hands-on work and movement reeducation. His experience leant itself to his books Jobs Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork.

PREFACE

MARC S. MICOZZI, M.D., PH.D.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a

disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.