Healing or stealing? : medical charlatans in the New Age

This book is an eye-opener for anyone who is considering the "softer" approaches to healing. Abgrall shows how wasteful and futile, if not invasive and destructive, many of our popular "holistic" remedies may be. "Healing or Stealing? Medical Charlatans in the New Age" shows how certain cults and "healing" groups victimize people through mental manipulation and mind-control, emptying their wallets while filling their minds with illusions. 1. From alternative medicine to patamedicine 2. And then came Hahnemann 3. Needles and pains 4. Muscles and bones 5. Go for what's natural 6. Steiner's heirs 7. Everything is in everything, and vice versa 8. Tastes and colors 9. Waves and magnets 10. Cancer, AIDS, and eternal youth 11. From mother ocean to the all-embracing mother 12. Psychiatry and delusions 13. Medicine and cults 14. The foundations of patamedicine 15. The medical authorities and the charlatans. Healing or Stealing? shows how certain cults and "healing" groups victimize people through mental manipulation and mind-control. "These pseudo-medical practitioners are selling illusions. They are as addictive as narcotic drugs, and as dangerous as cancer." Abgrall is one of the world's top experts on cults and the pseudo health movements that prey upon people in need. A practicing psychiatrist and criminologist, he says ""so-called alternative medicine sometimes crosses the line and becomes pure crookery."" A