New Book! Chaitow’s Muscle Energy Techniques 5e
Over a decade ago, as he completed some of the earlier revisions to his manual therapy textbooks, my father Leon Chaitow said to me, laughingly, “When I’m dead this’ll be your problem.” Little did I know how quickly that time would come, and...
Working with autistic patients in the bodywork clinic
When talking about autism in the healthcare context, it is often automatically perceived as a condition to be treated or cured. This is a prevalent attitude among the general public and healthcare professionals alike, yet, according to many in the autistic community,...
4 books on Péladan lined up
After a long, long gestation, I’m delighted to announce that my research study of Péladan, drawn from my PhD thesis, will be published in July 2022 by Theion Publishing! This is the first of four books I will be publishing with Theion. Entitled Son of...
What exactly is evidence… and what do we do with it?
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...
How do you feel inside? Why Narrative medicine is critical to ethical practice
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...
Solving the Biopsychosocial Problem
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.
Listen, My Body Electric
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, March/April 2020 Part 1: Narrative Medicine and the Holistic Revolution in Biomedicine
CFP: “Pagan Responses to Health, Disease, and Healing:” Special Issue of The Pomegranate International Journal of Pagan Studies
Guest editor: Sasha Chaitow, PhD. Abstract deadline 31st May 2021.
Intelligent Fascia?
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, November/December 2020 Once we are aware that we are in fact only one link in a long debate that has been repeated many times before, we can compare contexts and see where we may do things more constructively. We need to...
New book: Atalanta Unveiled
New book Atalanta Unveiled by Sasha Chaitow Atalanta Unveiled: Alchemical Initiation in the Emblems of the Atalanta FugiensDubbed ‘the most prominent alchemical physician in Germany since Paracelsus,’ Michael Maier was Royal Physician and Count Palatine to Holy Roman...
Science, Pseudoscience, and the Communication Battle
Published in Massage & Bodywork magazine, July/August 2020 As efforts to bring clarity to the “infodemic” surrounding COVID-19 continue, the scientific community is realizing two key things: they stand on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity to educate the...New book: Atalanta Unveiled
