The Preface of our new book is now available on our website. This is how it begins: "Despite our learning about the body-mind connection, from stress management and from Chi Kung, we continued to be controlled by the dominant psychological and psychotherapeutic model (as expressed in rational and cognitive therapy, and all other systems of therapy), in which the mind and body have been pulled apart and treated as separate entities. And therefore we continued to believe it was possible to help individuals who had problems with depression and anxiety, simply by talking about their beliefs, perceptions, interpretations and attitudes – regardless of how they managed their bodies.

"We both continued to have this schizophrenic attitude towards the body-mind – seeing them as united (for purposes of stress management), but strongly believing them to be separate (for purposes of psychology and psychotherapy).

"This schizophrenic approach fell apart in 2007, when I (Jim) began to ‘add back the body’ to the psychological/ psychotherapeutic understanding of human disturbance. (See the Holistic SOR model, in Byrne 2016[1]; and the body-connection, in Chapter 3 of Byrne 2017[2]). https://abc-counselling.org/diet-exercise-mental-health/