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A Psychiatrist's Diary

Sweat

Shyam K. Bhat, MD

Published: January 15, 2007

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Freud probably never participated in a sweat lodge ceremony, or he would have had quite a bit to say about it. There was something distinctly oedipal about the medicine woman’s description of the ceremony: "The sweat lodge," she said, "is like the womb of Mother Earth."

Unlike the more conventional conferences I’ d attended in the past, this one—for integrative medicine—was open not just to physicians, but to practitioners of all persuasion, some more esoteric than others.


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Volume: 68

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