The act of listening extends beyond a communication skill. It requires presence, engagement and has therapeutic effect, through acknowledging the dignity and personhood of the person speaking.
The Doctor, Portrait by Luke Fildes 1891
Medical Education following COVID, Challenges and Threats
Medical Education following COVID, Challenges and Threats
Dr. Ungar’s presentation to the Bora College of Health Sciences, Dominican University.
Music Harmony and Healing
Armed with the neurophysiology and imaging data reviewed in this essay, we can approach the need of integrating music as part of a new paradigm in healing.
Specifically in the spiritual non-left hemispheric interaction between healer and patient, I believe the use of this aspect of neural function will be vital in re-educating the resisting the normative adaptive responses in healthcare givers.
Spirituality, an innately human construct and force with pervasive influence across the expanse of human experience, organically and fluidly aligns with music as a similarly indigenous facet of human expression and experience.
When integrated, music amplifies and intensifies spiritual experiences such that new meaning for the client can emerge that transcends current modes of “being”. Spirituality in turn similarly infuses music and musicking with a powerful and resonant meaning distinct from other music experiences.
Remodeling the Space of Healing
Remodeling the Space of Healing
We investigate models that might move away from the traditional biomedical approach by emphasizing collaborative decision-making, patient autonomy, and considering psychological and social factors in addition to biological ones in the therapeutic relationship. Can a reconfiguration of architecture affect this therapeutic space?
Revisioning the Soul of Medical Practice
Health Care Delivery
A brain scan of white matter fibers, color-coded by direction Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH
Intuition and Imagination in Clinical Decision-Making Process
A New Model For Integrative Diagnosis and Management of PTSD
The Doctor, an 1891 portrait by Luke Fildes
A New Model For Healing
The Neurobiology of Addiction
The Spirituality of Chronic Pain
Commencement Address: Harrison College for Health Sciences
Obituary For Mr. Ernest Farkas of Chicago
Graduation From Officer Training
Migraine
In this essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon outlines the frustrating condition of migraine headaches and reviews some of the treatments available to patients for treating it.
Ethics Of Command In Morally Dubious Situations
The Ethics of Command In Morally Dubious Situations
In this essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon examines the question of ethics in military conflict. He looks at three historic examples and explains the difference between the "soldier-killer" and the "warrior".
Speech for Alon Ribak's Auf Ruf
Speech for Alon Ribak's Auf Ruf
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon offers words of blessing to his nephew, a war hero, a week before his wedding.
Musings on the Nightingale And the Vale of Soul-Making
Musings on the Nightingale And the Vale of Soul-Making
In this wide-ranging treatment, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon reflects on the multiple meanings that the Nightingale has taken across different genres of literature.
Flirting: An Obsession
In this essay, following a series of excerpted references, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon meditates on the nature and origins of flirting.
Hesped for My Father In-Law Rav Gettinger
Hesped for My Father In-Law Rav Gettinger
In this essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon eulogizes his departed father in-law, the great Rabbi Emanuel Gettinger.