For those who are in daily contact with people who are ill or in need, there may be a tendency to forget the
larger purpose of healing because of a need to focus on the day-to-day mechanics of healthcare. Anthroposophic
medicine, however, encompasses more than the physical bodyt is also concerned with the soul and individual
biography of patients, which brings a broader dimension to conventional medical care.

Peter Selg shows how anthroposophic therapies draw heavily on the Christian concept of healing as seen in the
Christian Bible. In practical terms, he suggests that, through meditation, healers and caregivers can allow the healing
power of Christ to work through them. They must come to recognize that sickness is part of a person destiny
and that the healing process can help realize the purpose of the sickness for the person  individual life story.

Nurses, caregivers, social workers, therapists, counselors, and doctors can all benefit from this insightful book.

Peter Selg was born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthro計osophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, including Seeing Christ in Sickness and Healing (2005); The Thera計eutic Eye (2008); A Grand Metamorphosis; (2008); The Figure of Christ (2009); Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher (2010); and Rudolf Steiner and the Fifth Gospel (2010). He is maried with five children.