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Achterberg
Dr. Achterberg is a scientist who has received international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and psychology. A faculty member for 11 years at Southwestern Medical School, she is currently a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. She co-chaired the mind/body interventions ad hoc advisory panel and the Research Technologies Conference of the Office of Alternative Medicine (now the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) and was a member of the Advisory Board, Unconventional Cancer Treatments Study Group, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. She is a research consultant and a board member of many foundations. She also provided training in the use of mind/body therapies for health care professionals in Europe, Japan, Argentina, and to refugees in Kosova and Macedonia.
She has authored over 100 papers and five books. Imagery in Healing is critically acclaimed as a classic in the field of mind/body studies, and Woman as Healer is described as a ground breaking work, surveying the activities of women from prehistoric times to the present. Rituals of Healing is a primer on the use of creative therapies for health and medicine, and won the Book of the Year Award from the American Nursing Association. Lightning at the Gate, the story of her personal healing journey, was published in 2001.
Her awards include Healer of the Year, given by the Nurse Healers' Cooperative, the Gardner Murphy Scholar Award, and the Moncrieff Award for Burn Research. In April of 2001, she was featured in Time Magazine as one of the six innovators of alternative and complementary medicine for the coming century.
Dr. Achterberg is past president of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, She was Senior Editor for Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, and is currently Senior editor for the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine'. Both publications are peer reviewed medical journals with an international circulation. Her most recent research was conducted at North Hawaii Community Hospital where she utilized the fMRI to study the effect of distant healing and prayer on brain function. In spring of 2008, Sounds True, Inc. published her CD series entitled "Intentional Healing. "
