Nationality United States Name Larry Dossey | Role Author | |
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Born 1940 Groesbeck, Texas Occupation Alternative-medicine advocate, public speaker, writer, physician Website www.dosseydossey.com/larry/default.html Education University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Books Healing Words: The Power of, One Mind: How Our Individual, Reinventing Medicine, The Power of Premoniti, The extraordinary healing p Similar People Herbert Benson, Mother Teresa, John Polkinghorne | ||
One mind one consciousness when spirituality meets science dr larry dossey
Larry Dossey (born 1940, Groesbeck, Texas) is a physician and author who propounds the importance for healing of prayer, spirituality, and other non-physical factors.
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- One mind one consciousness when spirituality meets science dr larry dossey
- Larry dossey on the power of prayer 1 3
- Biography
- Reception
- Selected works
- References
Larry dossey on the power of prayer 1 3
Biography
According to his written biography on his personal website, Dossey graduated from University of Texas at Austin and received an M.D. from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (1967). Dossey served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, being decorated for valor, and served as Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital (1982).
Reception
Dossey's writings and opinions have been controversial, having drawn both praise and criticism.
Surgical oncologist David Gorski has written that Dossey utilizes straw man arguments, misrepresents and misunderstands medical research and "the evidence base in favor of the woo that Dr. Dossey favors is pathetic in comparison to that supporting science-based medicine." In 2010 Dossey co-wrote a post in the Huffington Post called "The Mythology Of Science-Based Medicine" with Deepak Chopra and Rustum Roy, which Gorski characterized as "an exercise that combines cherry-picking, logical fallacies, and whining, raising the last of these almost to an art form."
Gary P. Posner, a physician, has criticized Dossey for writing "New Age psychobabble". Posner in a review has stated that Dossey uncritically accepts psychic powers, parapsychology experiments and dubious claims such as voodoo or "distant healing" as genuine, whilst ignoring the literature that has refuted these subjects.
Psychologist Robert A. Baker in a review for Dossey's Healing Words wrote that it is an entertaining book but "We'd all be better served-Dossey, his patients, his readers, and the general public-if Dossey would take his head out of the clouds, plant his feet on the ground, and stop talking nonsense. Everyone knows that evil looks won’t kill you. We also know that sticks and stones will break your bones and a doctor’s words alone-no matter how kind or gentle-will never heal you."
John Roberts in the British Medical Journal has described Healing Words as a religious book, useful to see how an argument could be made on how humans could utilize prayer to heal but some of the book was "convoluted new-age jargon".
Dossey's views and activities have frequently been reported in the media. For example, Business Insider quoted Dossey as having "coined the term 'time-sickness' in 1982 to describe the belief that 'time is getting away, that there isn’t enough of it, and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up.'"
The Belfast Telegraph described Dossey as a "distinguished American physician" and a "New York Times best-selling author", while quoting his views on Lorna Byrne. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that in 1993, Dossey had appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, in an episode themed on the power of prayer, describing Dossey as "a physician who advocates for spirituality in health care".
The "Jacket Copy" blog of the Los Angeles Times interviewed Dossey and quoted him extensively when reviewing one of his books.