In our personal lives, we are often consulted by relatives, friends and non-mental health professional colleagues for problems of a situational nature, or problems of living, which rarely warrant a psychiatric diagnosis. We cannot undertake formal psychotherapy in this population, nor are drugs or conventional behariour therapy procedures (such as Jacobson's progressive relaxation) quite...
We report two cases whose psychiatric dysfunction failed to respond to pharmaco-therapy, but which dramatically 'melted' with the practice of transcendental meditation (TM). Case 1: R., a 55 year old businessman, was diagnosed as Panic Disorder (severe) with Agoraphobia (mild) (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). Over 3 years of illness, he had received alprazolam (2 mg/day), lorazepam (6...