Integrated medicine is the method of combining both complementary and alternative medicine into the same treatment plan. It focuses more on disease prevention, health and healing rather than disease and treatment. It is a great tool for the management of chronic conditions and can help in the management of symptoms and even in slowing or reversing disease progression.

Conventional medicine is usually very dependent on expensive technological solutions to health issues while integrated medicine practices a more holistic approach which pays attention to lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, and the quality of rest and sleep. It takes into account the fact that the patient is a person with a mind and spirit and includes this factor when formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan.

Integrative Psychiatry

Integrative psychiatry is a part of integrated medicine and deals with issues of the mind. It strives to take a more holistic approach when dealing with mental health issues by using both conventional and complementary therapies in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The treatment is customized and planned to answer each person's lifestyle and needs. It involves the will in integrating what are referred to as sub personalities or ego states, characters, crystallizations of thoughts, feelings, physical attitudes, behaviours and needs. 

The five steps of this integrative process are:

Recognition => Acceptance => Coordination => Integration => Synthesis

Homeopathy and Integrative Psychiatry

Homeopathy is one of the complementary therapies that use integrative psychiatry to help people. Homeopathy is an ideal method for use in psychiatry as it uses a holistic approach in dealing with any kind of health problem. Apart from homeopathic medication, integrative psychiatry uses these complementary methods to help deal with mental health issues:

• Periodic nutritional assessments to ensure that adequate time and focus is given to diet, exercise, and/or supplements.
• Calming meditation exercises to increase relaxation.
• Guided imagery to aid in the healing process.
• Gentle massages to promote relaxation.
• Psychotherapy for relief of symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, and life's challenges, and to assist in raising one's consciousness to higher realms of possibility.

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If you are looking for a homeopathic doctor who practices integrative psychiatry, look up, “Integrative Psychiatry Near Me” and you will be able to find one easily.

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