by Sasha Chaitow | Mar 1, 2022 | Health Sciences, News, Writing
A contentious issue in the manual therapy professions is the question of how far specific applications are or are not evidence-based, and the degree to which clinical experience should be part of the clinical reasoning process. Promoting evidence-informed medicine...
by Sasha Chaitow | Feb 14, 2022 | News, teaching
The late 19th-century Parisian occult community gave birth to an extraordinary initiatory system, hidden and obscure – until now. Joséphin Péladan (1858 – 1918) created a program for esoteric self transformation centred upon artistic creativity, personal...
by Sasha Chaitow | Nov 1, 2021 | Health Sciences, News, Writing
The last three articles in this series explored what I have called a “holistic revolution in biomedicine” in the form of narrative medicine – an approach to the clinical encounter designed to address ethical and practical shortcomings of the...
by Sasha Chaitow | Sep 1, 2021 | Health Sciences, News
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, September/October 2021 This is the third in a series of four articles on narrative-based medicine, a protocol for building the therapeutic alliance that rests on holistic principles and addresses shortcomings in the...
by Sasha Chaitow | Jun 8, 2021 | News, Philosophy Lectures, teaching
This coming autumn/winter Sasha will be offering three entirely fresh courses via Treadwell’s Events. Delivered fully online via Zoom with a delayed viewing option, these are available from anywhere in the world, in all time zones. The courses will open for...
by Sasha Chaitow | May 25, 2021 | Events, Health Sciences, in memoriam, News, Videos
I was deeply touched on receiving an invitation from the organisers of the CIVO International Osteopathic Congress organised by Escuela Osteopatica de Madrid – Chile, that took place online in May 2021, asking me to share my father’s thoughts on osteopathy...
by Sasha Chaitow | May 21, 2021 | Events, News, Philosophy Lectures
Invited lecture for a Symposium on the goddess Hekate. Description: The oldest known Hymn to Hecate was composed by the epic poet Hesiod, a close contemporary of Homer who claimed to have received the stories of the birth of gods from the Muses themselves. His...
by Sasha Chaitow | May 14, 2021 | Health Sciences, News, teaching
These course elements were commissioned by the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Patras as part of the Postgraduate Research Planning Module in their new MSc in Therapeutic Exercise. I was invited to provide specialised training to contribute to the...
by Sasha Chaitow | May 13, 2021 | News, Philosophy Lectures, teaching
I am delighted with the experience and feedback from course participants, whose warm engagement made this second pandemic winter a pleasure to navigate. This course is now complete, and the recordings are being professionally edited before we make them available in...
by Sasha Chaitow | May 8, 2021 | Health Sciences, News, Writing
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, May/June 2021 As efforts to embed evidence-based practice across manual therapy professions continue to grow, the biopsychosocial (BPS) healthcare model has not seen the success some may have hoped for.
by Sasha Chaitow | Apr 6, 2021 | Health Sciences, interviews, News
Earlier this year I was delighted to join David Lesondak on his Bodytalk podcast in which we discuss matters close to both our hearts: from the medical humanities to hot topics in the manual therapy...
by Sasha Chaitow | Mar 8, 2021 | Health Sciences, News, Writing
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, March/April 2020 Part 1: Narrative Medicine and the Holistic Revolution in Biomedicine
