What does resilience these days look like? Is it head down, into the storm?, stiff upper lip, tough skin to resist the abrasion?, resolve, determination?, what other approaches might help? Candace Pert concluded from her research that you can’t talk about the body as a physical entity separate from mind and emotions, but rather as […]
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Damasio, “The Strange Order of Things”, and Dr. Candace Pert
Much like Candace Pert & Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonio Damasio believes that what the body feels is every bit as significant as what the mind thinks, and that both functions are inextricably intertwined. This is according to John Banville, in his review of Antonio Damasio’s new book “The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making […]
Dr. Pert featured in new documentary: “The Healing Field”
The Healing Field is a 2016 Telly Award winning documentary film by Penny Price Lavin that has aired on PBS. In this film, Dr. Pert explains how our thoughts, experiences, beliefs, expectations and emotions shape and filter our perceptions and outward (as well as inward) realities. These principles underlie the power of mindfullness meditations, positive […]
Peptide T & Dallas Buyers Club: What the Washington Post got wrong
There has been a steady stream of interest in “Peptide T”, the experimental HIV drug that was featured in the 2013 movie “Dallas Buyers Club”. Dr. Pert and I spent many years researching this experimental medicine for HIV, Neuro-AIDS, Pain, and Alzheimers disease. A few months after the movie premiered the Washington Post ran an […]
Massage & The Bodymind: An Interview with Dr. Candace Pert
The following is a reprint of an interview of Dr. Pert by Nancy Monk and Elliot Greene that ran in the Massage Therapy Journal in 1994. Click here to download the PDF. Even before Bill Moyers presented the PBS series, “Healing the Mind,” with a segment featuring her on “The Mind/Body Connection”, Candace B. Pert, […]
Smithsonian review of Dr. Pert’s book “Molecules of Emotion”
The following is a reprint of the article by Paul Trachtman reviewing Dr. Pert’s best-selling book “Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Feel” published by Smithsonian magazine in September, 1998. Review of ‘Molecules of Emotion’ By Paul Trachtman Candace Pert is a brilliant molecular biologist who was a key figure in the […]
