David Servan-Schreiber (1961-2011)

摘要

I believe that a major conceptual shift took place in his mind when he decided to join the Center for Complementary Medicine at Shadyside Hospital in Pennsylvania, where he later became Medical Director. This is the place where David's interests in psychiatry, internal medicine and complementary-based medicine came together, which led to much of his later groundbreaking work. In all his books, David wrote about both the power and the limitations of conventional western medicine. His "going beyond the median" meant looking beyond the material he studied in the known world of medicine, and the outcome of that quest can be seen in his best-selling book The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety and Depression, which has been translated in to 29 languages and sold over 1.3 million copies. In that book, he made a clear statement about the need to act in ways that most physicians do not recommend to their clients, when they are dealing with the dangerous impact of depression and anxiety on their health and lives.