Publications

The Healing Paradox: A Revolutionary Approach to Treating and Curing Physical and Mental Illness

by Steven Goldsmith, MD (North Atlantic Books, 2013)

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Why does Western medicine fail to cure most physical and mental illness?  Why do many of its treatments eventually lose their effectiveness and/or produce side effects?  How can we fully recover from illnesses that mainstream medicine pronounces incurable?  Why does medicine ignore a single basic, common sense principle that could revolutionize its effectiveness?

We discover the answer to these and other questions in a universal law of nature that the author terms the healing paradox: in order to cure illness, treatment must not combat it as an adversary but instead must ally with it.  That is, effective health care befriends and even encourages the hidden strengths that reside within all illness.  It is through such support of our innate healing resources that we can become well.

The Healing Paradox supports these assertions with the results of laboratory and clinical research, case studies, epidemiological data, philosophical analyses, and Dr. Goldsmith’s personal experiences with his and others’ illnesses.

As you journey through this book, you will discover a radically different vision of health care that is based upon sound, rational principles that we ignore at our peril.

 

 

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Sorry

a novel by Steven Goldsmith

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Sorry, a novel by Steven Goldsmith A full-length psychological thriller, Sorry concerns Ethan Keller, a man who remains amnesic for four years of his life.  Because of his conviction that he committed terrible deeds during that period, he is desperate to recover his memories.  However, no one wants him to remember, neither the psychiatrist from whom he seeks help, nor his wife, nor the U.S. government.      

This is a novel about guilty secrets and about our struggles to maintain personal autonomy in a world that conspires against us.  It is about the search of one man for the truth so he can become, literally, himself; about mind control in its various forms; the misuse of authority and the toll of abuse on our humanity; and, ultimately, the resilience of the human spirit.

Journal:

Writing Sorry, a thriller for which I am seeking publication, has been among the most delightful of my literary endeavors.  Through its creation I discovered the joys of organic fiction writing, in which for the first time I eschewed outlines and, as E.L. Doctorow phrased it, “put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.”  This process liberated me as it removed the constraints of expectation; I no longer felt compelled to tailor my creation to a predetermined schema.  And it excited me as I never knew what my characters would do or encounter from day to day.  I became in effect the book’s first reader. 

The challenge I encountered with this approach was to maintain a consistency of facts and characterizations, which required much backtracking and multiple editing of the manuscript.

Another challenge, one specific to the story, was its setting in 1993.  The world has changed so much since then that I had to keep reminding myself, for example, that cell phones haven’t always been parts of our anatomy, seemingly more vital to our survival than our internal organs or the umbilical cords they mimic in their function.  And that we haven’t always had instant electronic access to whatever facts or comforts we seek.  How did we ever manage with the clunky landline phones with those circular dials?  Or answering machines.  Or, God forbid, in-person conversations with live people?  All right, I see I’m edging into the snarkiness of the aged, so enough with the nostalgia and onward in the journey toward publication.           

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