Dear Friends interested in a salutogenetic, holistic approach to medicine

Based on the insights of the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) and the medical sociologist Aaron Antonowsky (1923-1994), a new paradigm is entering modern medical research world-wide: Salutogenesis (saluto = health and genesis = creation). This concept has to do with the sources of health and well-being. Over the last two hundred years the pathogenic concept became the mainstream approach and worked with the question: What makes people ill, where do metabolic disorders originate and what are the reasons of any illness? Salutogenesis looks at what maintains health even in times of stress and outer or inner problems. What allows people to remain healthy despite disasters, starvation or exposure to pathogenic factors? What gives human nature resilience and strength? Where are the sources of self-regeneration and self-healing?

Anthroposophic medicine, based on spiritual scientific research named Anthroposophy, by Dr. phil. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) with the cooperation of Dr. Ita Maria Wegman (1876-1943), has developed a very interesting salutogenic concept which can lead modern academic medical research towards a truly holistic medical approach, integrating the dimensions of inner spiritual development, soul transformation and a deeper understanding of human being’s physical nature in health and illness.

The International Postgraduate Medical Training offers doctors and medical students, pharmacists and health professionals the possibility in a system of one week blocks three to four times a year to gain an introduction to Anthroposophic medical concepts, to obtain advice and mentoring at different professional levels in theoretical and practical skills and, after a three to four years’ training, a certificate based on the international guidelines for doctors, pharmacists and other health professionals. For those who wish only to have an idea of what Anthroposophic medicine might be, it opens – even after just one week’s experience – ways for a new understanding of the human being and the developmental relationship with the realms of nature and their healing substances and processes. It gives an introduction in how to develop ones own healing faculties and insights for the inner spiritual path. This inner path is based on the middle European philosophical concepts of Lessing (1729-1781), who developed the philosophical approach towards the reality of reincarnation of karma, Goethe (1749-1832) who founded the philosophical approach towards a phenomenological understanding of nature and Steiner, who found the philosophical-academic pathway to understanding the reality and presence of the spiritual world with its light, love and guidance for humans' inner and outer development of humanity.

Welcome to the International Post Graduate Medical Training!

Michaela Glöckler MD