CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing

by John E. Upledger

In CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing, John E. Upledger, DO, OMM, recounts his development of CranioSacral Therapy. He shares poignant case studies of restored health: a five-year-old autistic boy, a man with Erb’s palsy, a woman with a fifteen year history of severe headaches, and numerous others. And he offers simple CranioSacral Therapy techniques you can perform at home on yourself or loved ones.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

John E. Upledger was co-founder of Upledger Institute International, Inc. and former medical director of Upledger Clinical Services.

Reviews

[Velvet Black · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was... interesting. Dated. Very obviously written by an older man (John Upledger who has since passed away) with ideas about women and children that deviated from the norm - and his ideas about how to heal them. Full of anecdotes but not backed up by any actual research - at least none that was cited. This book claims that CranioSacroal therapy:

1. can cure autism, but not schizophrenia
2. can cure dyslexia, but not dyscalculia.
3. can cure "mental retardation", fibromyalgia, endometriosis, ADHD and more.

The author admits to not understanding the mechanisms whereby his therapy "works" and therefore concludes the administering practitioner just has to be open to feeling what they feel and going with it.

He talks about the "Inner physician", including that of a 4 month old infant that had never heard the English language yet energetically communicated through the rhythms of his cerebrospinal fluid that his mother had inhaled a toxin in the second week of the 4th month of gestation that affected his nervous system's ability to develop motor tone. He then goes on to say that the baby spontaneously healed (with full motor tone despite muscles that would have been underveloped were this true) and also says that he was in a room full of French speaking people that can attest to the truth of this story, but doesn't name a single one.

All in all, as a professional manual therapist I read this book because I was interested in possibly studying CranioSacral therapy. CE courses are QUITE expensive. If this book is any indication of what I would learn, I have my serious reservations about moving forward.

As for the book itself, it's pages would make themselves extremely useful as paper in an outhouse.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read and interesting

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am really enjoying this book. John E. Upledger history fo cranio Sacral and some discovery and client imporvements. What he had found between the diffrent between Autistic and schizophrenic.
In the Autistic children, thier dural membranes lack the elasticity neede to accommodate fluctuation in the fluid volume and pressure in their craniosacral systems. While schizophrenic children there was not enough inferent energy within the craniscaral system to create teh rhythmical skull-bone motion.

[Robin]

Reading this because my neighbor Allyson recommended it and because it has almost nothing to do with parenting. :) Extremely interesting thus far!! Over my head...gave up when Jane's hearing improved and I was under-motivated to spend $ on a cranio-sacral doctor who doesn't take insurance. :)

[Jen Marin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is full of fascinating case studies demonstrating how craniosacral work can help a variety of circumstances. Dr. John writes in an engaging way that made me eager for more. I look forward to reading more of his work.