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What is Whole Psychiatry?

Whole Psychiatry is a system of personalized, patient-centered health care which is based on how our environment, lifestyle choices, relationships, psychological and spiritual orientation create imbalances in core biological systems which affect brain function and the mind. It is based on scientific evidence and its foundation is based on the following principles, which integrate some aspects of traditional psychiatry as well as functional medicine:

1. Biochemical individuality
2. Focus on processes rather than diseases
3. Person centered rather than disease centered
4. A confluence of factors create illness, and these often come from a variety of factors both within the person, and external to the person
5. There is a web-like interaction between all of the triggers and mediators of illness
6. Organ reserve can be strengthened to promote vitality and health
7. Knowledge is always evolving and physicians must remain open-minded, and amenable to change, while valuing fundamentals of health such as life-style, relationships, health food, air and water, and productive meaningful living.

Why Do You Need Whole Psychiatry?

Whole psychiatry is the best solution for the crisis of health care in this country. With depression becoming the first cause of disability according to the WHO by 2020 (worldwide), and the illness that occur with mental illness bankrupting our finances, treating the whole person reduces the use of medication, while eliminating or alleviating many of the illnesses that are co-morbid with psychiatric problems and the use of psychiatric medications (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc).

How is Whole Psychiatry different?

Whole Psychiatry involves understanding the origins, prevention, and treatment of complex chronic health (mental and physical) problems. Using personalized lifestyle modification (nutrition, diet, exercise), the latest laboratory and diagnostic techniques, personalized combinations of supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification techniques, psychotherapeutic and spiritual guidance, stress management techniques, and medication if necessary, health can be restored, and medication usage diminished, and collateral diseases eliminated or controlled.