Preface<br > We now live in ihc 1980s. This book was written tor our<br > times and tot the people of this age--which some call "the<br > new age."<br > The Bcrkclcv Holistic Health Center compiled tile first<br > Holistic ttcalthH，.mdbook ill 1978. That book captured the<br > spirit of thosc timcs， placed holistic hcahh within an his-<br > torical context， and cvcn inw)lved the future. This book<br > seeks to do for the 1980s what that book successfully ac-<br > complished fi~r the 1970s.<br > Much has happcncd in the health field and in the world<br > as a whole in recent years. During the 1960s and 1970s<br > holistic health was an ~hernativc movement associated with<br > the "countcr culture"; during the 1980s it has been moving<br > into the mainstream of American life. A growing number<br > of health practitioners and laypersons look to holistic health<br > for healing. No hmger relegated to small centers， holistic<br > health is now practiced in major hospitals， taught in uni-<br > versities， and used in businesses and corporations.<br > This growth was reflected by Lawrence LeShan， Ph.D.，<br > president-elect of the Association of Humanistic Psychol-<br > ogy (AItP)， at a mccting in Boston in August of 1984 when<br > he noted， "The Army Surgeon General is a dew)tee of<br > holistic health. (;onscquently， Walter Reed Hospital is be-<br > coming one of tim most holistic hospitals in the world."<br > Holistic health is truly influencing a variety of environ-<br > ments.<br >