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| Søren VentegodtSummaryAffiliation: The Quality of Life Research Center Country: Denmark Publications
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Clinical holistic medicine: holistic treatment of mental disordersSoren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine and Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:427-45. 2005..This scale seems to be a valuable tool to understand the state of consciousness and the nature of the process of healing that the patient must go through...
Clinical holistic medicine: how to recover memory without "implanting" memories in your patientSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1579-89. 2007..Implanted memories and implanted philosophy must be carefully handled and de-learned before ending the therapy. In conclusion "clinical holistic medicine" has developed a strategy for avoiding implanting memories...
Human development III: bridging brain-mind and body-mind. introduction to "deep" (fractal, poly-ray) cosmologySøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:767-76. 2006..Energy and information are actually the same from a scientific point of view; when the world is seen through the body-mind, it looks more like energy; when seen though the brain-mind, it looks more like information...
Human development II: we need an integrated theory for matter, life and consciousness to understand life and healingSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:760-6. 2006..Finally, thorough our analysis, we put up a model for adult human metamorphosis...
Quality of life and events in the first year of life. Results from the prospective Copenhagen Birth Cohort 1959-61Søren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:106-15. 2006..This suggests that we as adults have a great freedom to achieve a good life despite our experiences in the beginning of life...
Clinical holistic medicine (mindful short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy complimented with bodywork) in the treatment of schizophrenia (ICD10-F20/DSM-IV Code 295) and other psychotic mental diseasesSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1987-2008. 2007....
Clinical holistic medicine: avoiding the Freudian trap of sexual transference and countertransference in psychodynamic therapySøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 8:371-83. 2008..e., energy work) and less as a thing going on between the patient and the therapist (i.e., transference). This accelerates healing, and reduces sexual transference and the need for mourning at the end of therapy...
Human development XII: a theory for the structure and function of the human brainSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 8:621-42. 2008..The presented model of the conscious brain also seems to be able to explain the function of the simpler brains, such as those of insects and hydra...
Human development XIII: the connection between the structure of the overtone system and the tone language of music. Some implications for our understanding of the human brainSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 8:643-57. 2008..This can be taken as a general metaphor of painful, yet meaningful, and developing experiences in human life...
Clinical holistic medicine: the patient with multiple diseasesSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine and Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:324-39. 2005....
Clinical holistic medicine: holistic treatment of rape and incest traumaSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:288-97. 2005..Consciousness-based medicine seems to provide severely traumatized patients with the quality of support and care needed for their soul to heal...
Clinical holistic medicine: holistic rehabilitationSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine and Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:280-7. 2005..The principles of rehabilitation are not very different from other healing, but the task is often more demanding for the holistic physician as the motivation and resources often are very low and the treatment can take many years...
Human development VIII: a theory of "deep" quantum chemistry and cell consciousness: quantum chemistry controls genes and biochemistry to give cells and higher organisms consciousness and complex behaviorSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1441-53. 2006..By this speculative work inspired by Penrose and Hameroff we hope to inspire other researchers to formulate more strict and mathematically correct hypothesis on the complex and coherence nature of matter, life and consciousness...
Clinical holistic medicine: chronic pain in the locomotor systemSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:165-72. 2005....
Human development IV: the living cell has information-directed self-organisationSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1132-8. 2006..We conclude that during evolution the cell has developed into an information-guided self-organizing structure. The mystery we want to solve is: what is the mechanical cause and nature of biological information?..
Human development VI: supracellular morphogenesis. The origin of biological and cellular orderSøren Ventegodt
of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1424-33. 2006....
Human development VII: a spiral fractal model of fine structure of physical energy could explain central aspects of biological information, biological organization and biological creativitySøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1434-40. 2006....
Quality of life and philosophy of life determines physical and mental health: status over research findings from the Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, 1991-2007Søren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1743-51. 2007....
Clinical holistic medicine: pilot study on the effect of vaginal acupressure (Hippocratic pelvic massage)Søren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2100-16. 2006..It must be followed by conversational therapy and further holistic existential processing...
Clinical holistic medicine: the case story of Anna. III. Rehabilitation of philosophy of life during holistic existential therapy for childhood sexual abuseSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2080-91. 2006..In the paper, we also present a meta-perspective on intensive holistic therapy and its most characteristic phases...
Clinical holistic medicine: holistic sexology and acupressure through the vagina (Hippocratic pelvic massage)Søren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2066-79. 2006..It must be followed by conversational therapy and further holistic existential processing...
A short history of clinical holistic medicineSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1622-30. 2007..The paper discusses the development of holistic medicine into scientific holistic medicine with discussion of future research efforts...
Clinical holistic medicine: the case story of Anna. II. Patient diary as a tool in treatmentSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2006-34. 2006..In spite of the depth of the existential crisis, holistic existential therapy seems to support existential responsibility well and thus safe for the patients...
Clinical holistic medicine: the Dean Ornish program ("opening the heart") in cardiovascular diseaseSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine and Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1977-84. 2006..We believe there is a need for the allocation of resources for further research into the aspects of holistic health and its methods, where positive and significant results have been proven and reproduced at several sites...
Clinical holistic medicine: the case story of Anna. I. Long-term effect of childhood sexual abuse and incest with a treatment approachSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1965-76. 2006..The case story of Anna is an example of how even the most severely ill patient can recover fully with the support of holistic medical treatment, making her feel, understand, and let go of her negative beliefs and life-denying decisions...
Clinical holistic medicine (mindful, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy complemented with bodywork) in the treatment of experienced impaired sexual functioningSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:324-9. 2007..The therapy was "mindful" in its focus on existential and spiritual issues. The patients received in average 14.8 sessions at the cost of 1,188 EURO...
Clinical holistic medicine (mindful, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy complemented with bodywork) improves quality of life, health, and ability by induction of Antonovsky-salutogenesisSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:317-23. 2007..A lasting, positive effect might also prevent many different types of problems in the future. The therapy was "mindful" in its focus on existential and spiritual issues...
Clinical holistic medicine (mindful, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy complemented with bodywork) in the treatment of experienced mental illnessSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:306-9. 2007..For the treatment responders, the treatment provided lasting benefits, without the negative side effects of drugs. A lasting, positive effect might also prevent many different types of problems in the future...
Human Development IX: a model of the wholeness of man, his consciousness, and collective consciousnessSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1454-9. 2006..In this paper we consider man as a real wholeness and debate the concepts of subjectivity, consciousness and intent that can be deduced from such a perspective...
Clinical holistic medicine: psychodynamic short-time therapy complemented with bodywork. A clinical follow-up study of 109 patientsSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2220-38. 2006..If psychiatric or psychological treatment had already failed, the patients were more difficult to help. The Square Curve Paradigm was used to document a large, immediate and lasting effect of the therapy...
Clinical holistic medicine: chronic infections and autoimmune diseasesSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:155-64. 2005..Holistic medicine has yet to be better explained scientifically and our proposed holistic cures have yet to be documented clinically. We invite the medical community to cooperate on this important challenge...
Clinical holistic medicine: developing from asthma, allergy, and eczemaSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:936-42. 2004..Children with allergy and asthma can also be helped if their parents are able to do work on personal development, to improve the general quality of life in the family and their relationship with the child...
The life mission theory II. The structure of the life purpose and the egoSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1277-85. 2003....
Long-term effects of maternal smoking on quality of life. Results from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61Søren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:714-20. 2003..However, the underlying causal factor for this reduction in quality of life remains unclear. Nevertheless, pregnant mothers should be made aware of the potential long-term effects smoking can have on their children...
Holistic medicine III: the holistic process theory of healingSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1138-46. 2003..This paper presents a theory for the holistic process of healing, and lists the necessities for holistic therapy restoring the quality of life, health, and ability to function of the patient...
Quality of life philosophy V. Seizing the meaning of life and becoming well againSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1210-29. 2003..This paper describes the philosophy about seizing the meaning of life and becoming well again, even when there is little time left...
Quality of life philosophy IV. The brain and consciousnessSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1199-209. 2003..We share the vision that such an understanding of the problems of consciousness will make medical science holistic and will bring quality of life, health, and the ability to function to its patients...
Quality of life philosophy III. Towards a new biology: understanding the biological connection between quality of life, disease, and healingSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1186-98. 2003..We believe that we need a radically new biology and medicine to give the scientific explanations of the structure, dynamics, and quality of life, and of its consciousness...
Lifestyle, quality of life, and healthSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:811-25. 2003....
Quality of life philosophy II: what is a human being?Søren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1176-85. 2003..This deep joy of life is what we call experiencing the meaning of life...
Measurement of quality of life III. From the IQOL theory to the global, generic SEQOL questionnaireSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:972-91. 2003..However, the perspective is clear. If eight simple questions can accurately rate the quality of life as well as its depth, we have found an instrument of immense practical scope...
Quality of life philosophy I. Quality of life, happiness, and meaning in lifeSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1164-75. 2003..The improvement of the patient"s personal philosophy of life seems to be the essence of holistic medicine, helping the patient to assume more responsibility for his or her own existence...
Quality of life theory III. Maslow revisitedSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1050-7. 2003..But you will only find this hidden meaning of life if you scrutinize your own life and existence closely enough, to come to know your innermost self...
Quality of life theory II. Quality of life as the realization of life potential: a biological theory of human beingSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1041-9. 2003....
Measurement of quality of life VII. Statistical covariation and global quality of life data: the method of weight-modified linear regressionSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1020-9. 2003..As we need to be certain that the procedure is valid, we hereby invite the scientific community to give us further critique of the method and suggestions for its improvement...
Measurement of quality of life V. How to use the SEQOL, QOL5, QOL1, and other global and generic questionnaires for researchSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1002-14. 2003..If the results are to be published in the scientific literature, it is necessary to seek the assistance of an expert in statistics and/or research and the dissemination of research results...
The life mission theory III. Theory of talentSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1286-93. 2003..When these needs are not fulfilled, we suffer and if this suffering becomes unbearable we deny the dimension or a part of is. This is why the dimensions of purpose, power and gender become suppressed from our consciousness...
The life mission theory IV. Theory on child developmentSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1294-301. 2003..Education of the parent in holding is often mandatory. Most children with bad thriving ability can thus be helped by simple means...
Holistic medicine IV: principles of existential holistic group therapy and the holistic process of healing in a group settingSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:1388-400. 2003..A 5-day course in personal development can be compatible to a half year of holistic individual therapy...
Clinical holistic medicine: metastatic cancerSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:913-35. 2004....
Clinical holistic medicine: treatment of physical health problems without a known cause, exemplified by hypertension and tinnitusSoren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:716-24. 2004..This will force you to develop your own competence and is, in essence, what makes an outstanding holistic physician...
Validation of two global and generic quality of life questionnaires for population screening: SCREENQOL and SEQOLSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:412-21. 2003..68 and 0.41, respectively). For SCREENQOL and SEQOL, 61 and 111 respondents were needed to detect 3% difference in QoL. SCREENQOL and SEQOL are both valid as they show high levels of reliability, sensitivity, and consistency...
Clinical holistic medicine: holistic sexology and treatment of vulvodynia through existential therapy and acceptance through touchSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:571-80. 2004....
Clinical holistic medicine: holistic adolescent medicineSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:551-61. 2004..If possible, biomedicine must be avoided, even if this means suffering for the young person, who needs to confront the tough realities of life in order to grow into an able and sound adult...
Clinical holistic medicine: when biomedicine is inadequateSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:333-46. 2004..In this case, he must ethically try something more in order to cure his patients, which is the crossroads where both traditional manual medicine and the tools of a scientific holistic medicine are helpful...
Long-term effects of maternal medication on global quality of life measured with SEQOL. Results from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61Søren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:707-13. 2003..From this study it is concluded the fetal exposure to the drugs examined showed no measurable long-term effects on quality of life...
Clinical holistic medicine: use and limitations of the biomedical paradigmSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:295-306. 2004..This paper gives a number of examples where medical drugs really are the treatment of choice in general practice and some more doubtful examples of using of the biomedical paradigm...
Clinical holistic medicine: social problems disguised as illnessSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:286-94. 2004..Most of the chronic pain and discomfort with children can be improved if the physician understands how to use the holistic medical toolbox...
Clinical holistic medicine: the "new medicine", the multiparadigmatic physician, and the medical recordSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:273-85. 2004..Much too often, the essence of the session is nowhere to be found in the case record, so most of the generated value is lost between consultations...
Quality of life as medicine III. A qualitative analysis of the effect of a five-day intervention with existential holistic group therapy or a quality of life course as a modern rite of passageSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:124-33. 2004..The long-term and preventative effects of the courses have yet to be documented...
Clinical holistic medicine: applied consciousness-based medicineSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 4:96-9. 2004....
Measurement of quality of life IV. Use of the SEQOL, QOL5, QOL1, and other global and generic questionnairesSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 3:992-1001. 2003..Putting the quality of life on the agenda inherently has a constructive and positive effect on the life and functioning of the individual and society...
Clinical holistic medicine: teaching orgasm for females with chronic anorgasmia using the Betty Dodson methodPia Struck
European Orgasm Academy, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 8:883-95. 2008..NNT: 1.04 < NNT < 1.12, NNH > 500. Therapeutic value: TV = NNH/NNT > 446. Our conclusions are that holistic sexological manual therapy may be rational, safe, ethical, and efficient...
Which factors determine our quality of life, health and ability? Results from a Danish population sample and the Copenhagen perinatal cohortSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 18:445-50. 2008..To examine the statistical associations between Global Quality of Life (QOL) and a series of indicators representing health, ability, philosophy of life, sexuality, quality of working life and other medically relevant aspects of life...
First do no harm: an analysis of the risk aspects and side effects of clinical holistic medicine compared with standard psychiatric biomedical treatmentSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1810-20. 2007..CHM is an efficient, safe and affordable cure for a broad range of mental illnesses...
A review and integrative analysis of ancient holistic character medicine systemsSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1821-31. 2007..If the physician is balancing the elements without such a healing of the patient's existential core this can still momentarily help the patient by alleviating the symptoms, but it will not have a permanent effect...
Clinical holistic medicine: factors influencing the therapeutic decision-making. From academic knowledge to emotional intelligence and spiritual "crazy" wisdomSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1932-49. 2007....
Formal errors in non-pharmaceutical medicine (CAM): clinical medicine, mind-body medicine, body-psychotherapy, holistic medicine, clinical holistic medicine and sexologySøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
Int J Adolesc Med Health 21:161-74. 2009..None of the errors caused harm to the patient but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision...
Meta-analysis of positive effects, side effects and adverse events of holistic mind-body medicine (clinical holistic medicine): experience from Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom and GermanySøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
Int J Adolesc Med Health 21:441-56. 2009..About 50% of the general population has a chronic disease not cured by biomedicine...
A review of the Danish National Drug Directory: who provides the data for the register?Søren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Adolesc Med Health 22:197-212. 2010..We warn physicians and patients that the existing drug directory is strongly biased and not a reliable source of information...
The health and social situation of the mother during pregnancy and global quality of life of the child as an adult. Results from the prospective Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort 1959-1961Søren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:950-8. 2005..This suggest that the aspects important for quality of life later on are not found solely in early conditions, but instead more dependent on later attitude towards life of that specific person...
Suicide from a holistic point of viewSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:759-66. 2005..Without confronting the fundamental question of "to be or not to be", life can never be chosen 100% and thus never be lived fully...
Factors during pregnancy, delivery and birth affecting global quality of life of the adult child at long-term follow-up. Results from the prospective Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61Søren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:933-41. 2005....
Clinical holistic medicine: mental disorders in a holistic perspectiveSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine and Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 5, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:313-23. 2005..We believe that most psychiatric diseases can be alleviated or cured by the loving and caring physician who masters the holistic toolbox. Further research is needed to document the effect of holistic medicine in psychiatry...
Human development V: biochemistry unable to explain the emergence of biological form (morphogenesis) and therefore a new principle as source of biological information is neededSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1359-67. 2006..We need a fundamentally new, information-carrying principle to understand biological information and biological order...
Clinical holistic medicine: whiplash, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigueSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:340-54. 2005..The new diseases are a challenge, a unique chance to improve communication, holding, and processing skills...
Self-reported low self-esteem. Intervention and follow-up in a clinical settingSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:299-305. 2007..Clinical holistic treatment has many advantages: efficiency, low cost, lack of negative side effects, lasting results, lack of use of psychopharmacological drugs (often with side effects), and an important preventive dimension...
Clinical holistic medicine (mindful, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy complemented with bodywork) in the treatment of experienced physical illness and chronic painSøren Ventegodt
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:310-6. 2007..The patients received in average 20 sessions over 14 months at a cost of 1600 EURO. For the treatment responders, the treatment seemingly provided lasting benefits...
Clinical holistic health: advanced tools for holistic medicineSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2048-65. 2006....
Clinical holistic medicine: the existential crisis--life crisis, stress, and burnoutSøren Ventegodt
Nordic School of Holistic Health and Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:300-12. 2005..In this paper, we describe how we have met the patients soul to soul and guided them through the old pains and losses in order to get back on the track to life...
The life mission theory VII. Theory of existential (Antonovsky) coherence: a theory of quality of life, health, and ability for use in holistic medicineSøren Ventegodt
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:377-89. 2005..Its major weakness is that it turns holistic medicine more into an art than into a science because the physician must master intent, which is a poorly understood dimension of existence...
Why is Antonovsky's sense of coherence not correlated to physical health? Analysing Antonovsky's 29-item Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-29)Trine Flensborg-Madsen
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:767-76. 2005..Our analysis convinced us that the SOC scale is unlikely to be a fair materialization of the idea of coherence and thus unlikely to measure SOC correctly...
Sense of coherence and physical health. A review of previous findingsTrine Flensborg-Madsen
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 5:665-73. 2005....
Sense of coherence and physical health. Testing Antonovsky's theoryTrine Flensborg-Madsen
Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2212-9. 2006..Our conclusion is that the original 29-item SOC scale mixed a few emotional aspects into the otherwise mental construct, which is the reason for the relatively low correlations found until now, when using the original scale...
Sense of coherence and physical health. A cross-sectional study using a new scale (SOC II)Trine Flensborg-Madsen
Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2200-11. 2006..We also postulate that the concept of predictability was irrelevant, or even disturbing, and should not be included in the SOC scale...
Human development XI: the structure of the cerebral cortex. Are there really modules in the brain?Tyge Dahl Hermansen
Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4 8, DK 1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1922-9. 2007..Consciousness is thus not a local phenomena limited to the brain, but a much more global phenomena connected to the wholeness of the world...
Sense of coherence and physical health. The emotional sense of coherence (SOC-E) was found to be the best-known predictor of physical healthTrine Flensborg-Madsen
Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2147-57. 2006..Based on these two studies, we conclude that physical health is primarily associated with emotions, while psychological health is primarily associated with mentality...
