CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
SECTION I. MIND-BODY-SPIRIT CONNECTIONS
Chapter 1 Searching For Life Purpose: Discovering Meaning (Helen L. Erickson)
Overview
Soul Work
Reason For Being
Are We Body First?
Or, Soul First?
Life Purpose
Creating Holistic Beings
Inherent Spiritual Drive
Essence of Self
Sense of Self
Merging the Selfs
A String of Pearls
The Reservoir
The Inner Voice
Self-Knowing
Life is a Journey
A Search For Meaning
Intuitive Pathways
Disconnection
Learning To Learn
Being Nurtured
Seeding
Learning To Know
Practicing
Priorities
New Pathways
Parallel Pathways
Resistance to Direction
Reframing
Confirmation
Merging Paths
Expanding Horizons
Challenges
Self-care Action
Self-Actualizing
Self-care and Holism
Self-care
Holism
Self-knowledge
Spiritual Drive
Aims of Nursing
Nurturing Growth In Nurses
What’s In A Name?
Higher Integration
My String of Pearls
A Self-actualized Man
My Life Purpose
My Gift To You
What Gem Do You Wish to Pass On?
Chapter 2 Energy Theories: Modeling and Role-Modeling (Mary Brekke & Ellen Schultz)
Overview
Energy Theories
What Is Energy
Four Forces
Types Of Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
Electric Fields
Magnetic Fields
Quantum Energy
Subtle Bioenergy
Universal Life Force
Transformation Of Energy
Cellular Energy
Significance of Transformation of Energy
We Are Energy First
Unified Field
Implications
Applying Energy Fields to Nursing
The Human Energy System
Meridians
Are They Real?
What Are They?
Chakras
Are They Real?
What Are They?
The Auric Field
Is It Real?
Where Is It?
The Nurse’s Caring Field
Application of Energy Concepts to Modeling and Role-Modeling
Holism
Holism at the Cellular Level
Holism at the Subsystems Level
Health
Adaptation
Affiliated-Individuation
Lifetime Growth and Development
Self-Care
Self-Care Knowledge
Self-Care Resources
The Nurses’ Role
Unconditional Acceptance
Facilitation
Nurturance
The Enduring Nurse-Client Relationship
Chapter 3 Mind-Body-Spirit Relations (Marsha Walker & Helen L. Erickson
Overview
Background Information
Neurological Functioning
Reception and Transmission of Messages
Neurotransmission
Dendrites and Receptor Sites
Receptor Potentials
Action Potentials
Neurotransmitters
Classification
Neuropeptides
Mind and Body Communication
Cell-To-Cell Communication
Neuromodulation
Synchrony Of Energy Fields
Integrating Mind and Body: Psychoneuroimmunology
The Paradigm Shift
The Bodymind
The Brain
The Opiate Neuropeptides
The GI and Endocrine Systems
The Immune System
Conclusions
Integrating Spirit with Body and Mind
Connection as Energetic Exchange
Subatomic Particles
Energy Waves
Consciousness
Distant Connections
Nonlocality
Distant Intentionality
Distant Healing
The Unified Field Theory
Zero Point Field
Integration
Implications
The Thinker and the Thought
Beliefs and Healing
Expectation and Perception
Food For Thought
Word to the Wise
Then-Fault Clause
We’re Doing Our Best
Finding Meaning
SECTION I I. MODELING AND ROLE-MODELING CONCEPTS RELATED TO THE HOLISTIC PERSON
Chapter4 Self-Care: Knowledge, Resources and Actions (Judith E. Hertz & Linda Baas)
Overview
Self-Care Knowledge
Self-care Knowledge Defined
At Some Level We Know
Learning to Know What We Know
Exercise Physiology
Stress Reduction
Self Care Resources
External Resources
Mixed Findings
Social Networks
Systems as Social Networks
Other External Resources
Implications
Internal Resources
State Resources
Trait Resources
Genetic Resources
Stored Memories
Psychosocial Development
Specific Traits Derived From Developmental Processes
Hope for the Future
Generalized and Particularized Hope
Using Hope
Control
Purpose and Competence
Knowledge
Sensory Preparation
Wisdom
Spirituality
Self-Care Actions
Key to Health and Healing
Personal Meaning
Perceived Enactment of Autonomy
Commonalities
Implications
Recognizing Cues
Relations with Health
Self Care Integration
Case Analysis
The Primary Source of Information
Conclusions
Chapter5 Developmental Processes (Margaret E. Erickson)
Overview
Developmental Concepts in Modeling and Role-Modeling
Developmental Theory
Inherent Development
Chronology
Epigenesis
Developmental Residual
Dimensions
Trait Resources
Developmental Stages Expanded
Philosophical Discussion
Psychosocial or Holistic Development?
Psychosocial Beings
Holistic Beings
New Developmental Stages
Gerotranscendence
Ten Stages of Human Development
Background
Integration
Task Work
Residual Dimensions
Facilitating Factors
Impeding Factors
Epigenesis and Finding Balance
Resources
Strengths
Virtue
Trust
Autonomy
Initiative
Industry
Identity
Intimacy
Generativity
Ego Integrity
Transformation
Chapter 6 Affiliated-Individuation and Self-Actualization: Need Satisfaction as Prerequisite (Margaret E. Erickson and Betty Jensen)
Overview
Human Motivation
Affiliated-Individuation: Precursor to Self-Actualization
Variance in Affiliated-Individuation
Needs Are Inherent
Universality
Types of Needs
Basic Needs
Need Status
Growth Needs
Need Satisfaction Creates Tension
Need For Information
Implications for Teaching-Learning Process
Needs Drive Behavior
Meaning
Past Experiences
Resource Availability
Holism and Need Satisfaction
Exchange of Resources
Implications
Being or Deficit Relationships
Being Orientation
Deficit Orientation
Conflict Theory
Types of Conflict
Approach-Approach
Approach-Avoidance
Multiple Approach-Avoidance
Avoidance-Avoidance
The Being Process
Case Analysis
Chapter 7 Attachment, Loss and Reattachment (Margaret E. Erickson)
Overview
Background
Bowlby’s Contributions
Attachment Theory and MRM
Preliminaries: H. Erickson Postulations
Attachment, Loss and Grief
The Old You, Now You, New You
C.Kinney’s Contribution
M.Erickson Contributions
Conclusions
Attachment as a Prerequisite for Growth
Attachment Phenomena