Nobody's Boy: An Old Doctor and a New Science - Paperback

by Mike Denney (Author)

A heartwarming medical memoir, telling of the author's lifelong quest for unification of spirituality with science in the healing arts. Doctor Mike Denney, surgeon and psychologist, tells dramatic and inspirational stories of his childhood, medical education, and years of practice, which offer paths toward a new science of the 21st century, a transformative science in which the spiritual is integrated within the research, education, and practice of all the medical healing arts, conventional and alternative.

Author Biography

Mike Denney graduated from medical school at the University of Michigan in 1959. After many years of practicing, teaching, and writing as a trauma surgeon, Mike went back to school at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and earned a PhD degree in depth psychology. His dissertation is entitled Body, Soul and Medicine. He is author of Second Opinion (Grosset & Dunlap, 1979) and many articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. Currently, Mike is adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He practices psychological and somatic counseling at his office in Sausalito, and writes and teaches about his passion for the union of science and spirituality in the healing arts. He was Editor of San Francisco Medicine, the Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society from 2006-2010.