Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword

PART I -- Introduction

Chapter 1: Toward Plurality in American Acupuncture
Chapter 2: A Question of Style

PART II -- Acupuncture Influences and Styles

Chapter 3: French Acupuncture Influences
Chapter 4: Some Japanese Styles: Palpating the Energetic Core
Chapter 5: Organ-Functional Energetics
Chapter 6: Diaphragmatic Reactivity and Stress Reactions: An Acupuncture-Energetic View of Immune Dysfunction

PART III -- Acupuncture Treatment Staging

Chapter 7: Acupuncture Imaging: Where to Begin, How to Proceed
Chapter 8: Bodymind-Energetic Palpation
Chapter 9: Clearing the Surface, Supporting the Core

Appendix: Self-Study Exercises
Notes
Index

About the Author

Mark D. Seem, Ph.D., is a former president of the National Council of Acupuncture Schools and Colleges and founder of the Tri-State College of Acupuncture in New York City. The author of Acupuncture Energetics and Bodymind Energetics, he lectures at schools and conferences throughout the United States and maintains a private practice in New York City.

Reviews

"This book speaks out for a style of acupuncture informed by touch and by an awareness of the power of language. I applaud Mark Seem's emphasis on reframing or imaging the client's problems in a way that is client-centered and empowering." * Iona Marsaa Teeguarden, M.A., M.F.C.C., author of The Acupuncture Way of Health *
"Mark Seem's vision elevates acupuncture to a sophisticated form of somatic education in which meaning, rather than meridian points, is the pathway toward health and well-being." * Thomas Hanna, editor of Somatics magazine *