The Voice of the Patient (eBook)

The Voice of the Patient: Listening, Thinking, Healing — Volume 1: Organ Types

“When the life forces in one or more organs are disturbed, not only is the physiological function affected but a mental imbalance also arises from each of the four organs responsible for protein formation, organs designed for bodily functions and created by the forces of the seven solar planets.” (introduction)

These case studies are based on records of patient–faculty meetings during the late 1980s with Liberty Medical Arts and Dr. Anna Lups, along with other holistic-health practitioners in various anthroposophically inspired fields of healthcare, all seeking a unique and truly integrated approach to each patient’s health. These studies show in detail the process followed, including observations of the whole human being of body, soul, and spirit by faculty members while meeting with them. This was followed by a discussion among the faculty, leading to a multilayered assessment and recommended therapy and life changes on the patient’s part. A suggested path of treatment was then relayed to each patient as an invitation to work with Liberty Medical Arts toward inner and outer balance and health.

The patients represented in The Voice of the Patient, volume 1, have each been characterized according to one of four organ types—heart, kidney, liver, or lung—which not only points to the individual’s observed presentation in the world but also suggests ways for members of the faculty and patients to work interactively, encouraging the individual’s full participation in the process and, ultimately, free acceptance of the means and responsibility for one’s own health and future wellbeing.

Each case represented here is unique in terms of the individuals, the issues and illnesses assessed, and the subsequent recommended therapies. This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand spiritual-scientific methods of diagnosis and treatment.

“These four organs—lung, heart, liver (spleen), and kidney—are the ‘clay’ used by the creator gods to fashion our magnificent physical body. It is indeed a mighty tableau. It can be created whenever we contemplate health and wellbeing and the rung on the ladder from warmth condensed down to the building stones that provide the scaffold for life itself and back up again from form to dissolution, disintegration and ‘death.’” (introduction)

About the Author

Anna Lups, MD was born in 1936 and earned her medical degree in South Africa. Following a cardiology residency in the Netherlands in the 1960s, she emigrated to the United States, and in 1979 began a practice of anthroposophically extended medicine and integrative health. She lives in New York State. She is also the author of The One, Child of the Universe.