Yale-trained psychiatrist and internationally recognized author, lecturer and healer Carl A. Hammerschlag--a leading proponent of the mind-body-spirit approach to health-- offers a practical, powerful technique for creating personal rituals for health. Written with physician Howard Silverman, this book tells the stories of people who have confronted health problems and life events with powerful ceremonies, and offers step-by-step guidelines for building healing ceremonies of our own. "Healing Ceremonies should answer a great need in our culture for rituals that help access healing."Andrew T. Weil, M.D. Author of Spontaneous Healing