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with schizophrenia improved markedly when she began to play the piano that had been newly installed in her ward, and was soon discharged. Influenced by these and other examples, Diamond systematically investigated the effects of many aspects of music, including different styles, performers, composers, instruments, acoustics, and recording techniques. He similarly investigated the Life Energy of other art forms, including painting, photography, drama, literature, and poetry.
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212:. He believed that the flow of Life Energy underlies health at its most basic level, and that suffering, whether physical or psychological, is caused by blockages, often unconscious, to the flow. His approach with those who came to see him was first to diagnose the impediments to the flow of Life Energy, and then help overcome them by drawing on a wide range of modalities, including acupuncture, verbal affirmations, physical procedures, and herbs.
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them to "cantillate," and then show them how to raise their Life Energy through the practice of that activity. He encouraged an altruistic approach, which he regarded as the most effective for therapeutic purposes. In fostering cantillation, Diamond stressed the importance of the maternal relationship, which he termed
Matrophilia, as an underlying factor in wellbeing.”
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them, thus potentially allowing the person to keep their Life Energy at an optimum level. Diamond discussed what he believed was the relationship between acupuncture meridians and emotions. This relationship was to become far-reaching in his work, and from it he developed a model which delineated how emotions affect the body and vice versa.
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Diamond argued that everything we encounter in our lives impacts our Life Energy positively or negatively – for example, our nutrition, our thoughts, our social interactions, and the music we listen to. He taught that being aware of the effects of such stimuli is a first step to being able to control
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The therapeutic use of creativity was integral to
Diamond's approach. He regarded music in particular as central. Working as a psychiatrist in a Melbourne mental hospital in the 1960s, he witnessed first-hand the transformative effects of music on the residents. For example, a long-term patient
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In 1971, Diamond moved to New York. He was to remain based in the US for the rest of his life, except for a four-year residence in
England in the 1990s. After his arrival in New York he worked for the Legal Aid Society and on an adolescent drug-abuse program at Mount Sinai and Beth Israel Hospitals
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conventionally refers to the chanting of sacred texts, but
Diamond applied it in a wider sense both of feeling loved, and in turn expressing that love to others through music, art, poetry and any other act of creativity. His technique was to reveal the activity unique to each person which allowed
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in 1957 and was awarded his
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Diamond married three times. His first wife was
Suzanne Gurvich, with whom he had three children, Ian, Kathie, and Peter. In the 1970s he married Betty Peele, and in 1994 the opera singer Susan Burghardt. For many years, Diamond played drums in a jazz band which he founded, named the Diamond
190:, a Diplomate of the International College of Applied Kinesiology, and from 1978 to 1980 was President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. He was an Honorary Advisor to the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation and their Japanese sister organization, the Koushikai Foundation.
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Chinese concept of
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