Massachusetts General Hospital | Psychiatry

Summer Seminar: Mind/Body - Components, Research, Techniques and Applications with the RR

30/Sep/2010

August 30 - September 3, 2010 Harbor View Hotel, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Offered by: Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Course Directors: Herbert Benson, MD and Ann Webster, PhD

This course, which will be both didactic and experiential, will focus on understanding the foundation of mind/body medicine, the role of stress in illness, recent research advances, and techniques and applications.

OBJECTIVE
The objectives of this seminar are for the learner to be able to:

• review the history, components and the economic benefits of mind/body medicine;
• employ stress physiology and mind/body interactions in health and illness;
• describe recent research in mind/body medicine;
• recognize several mind/body techniques and understand their applications.

Attendance Limited

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