Volume 4 Issue 1 - Spring 2009

by David Mayor

This is a ground breaking publication. To my knowledge, it is the first multi-author book of any substance in English that focuses on the acupuncture treatment of a particular condition. It is also the first publication on any form of complementary and alternative medicine by Hogrefe, a distinguished European publishing house better known for its psychology textbooks and journals. The only previous book in English on zhenjiu (acupuncture and moxibustion) for schizophrenia is a 1999 translation by Thomas Dey of a Chinese text originally published in 1987, compiled by an unstated number of unnamed authors. A work with a broader perspective is long overdue.