Tonight's Guest on A Fireside Chat With Zany Mystic: Dean Shrock, Ph.D. Why Love Heals

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Tonight's Guest on "A Fireside Chat..." is Dean Shrock, Ph.D. His book, "Why Love Heals", is about the Mind-Body-Spirit connection necessary in the "new medicine".

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~ BIOGRAPHY ~ Dean Shrock, Ph.D. ~

Dean Shrock, Ph.D attended Cleveland State University, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1968. In 1977 he began training to be a lecturer in a self-help program with its founder, Ken McCaulley. Shrock returned to college in 1980, graduating from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio with a master's in Community and College Counseling in 1983, and completing his doctorate in Counseling Psychology in 1986. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Relaxation, Guided Imagery, and Wellness."

In 1986 Dr. Shrock completed a post-doctoral internship where he developed a research proposal for the Cleveland Clinic to test the effectiveness of guided imagery with cancer patients. In 1987 he interned as a staff psychologist with the Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital in State College, Pa. While there, he also interned with Dr. Carl Simonton at the Simonton Cancer Center where he initiated his research with psychological approaches to cancer care.

Dr. Shrock was hired in 1988 by a physician management group to provide psychological services for their cancer centers. Here he developed a program whose primary purpose was to assist people coping with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dr. Shrock was convinced that when people had a greater "will to live" that it could affect the course of their disease. While bringing more joy and meaning into life surely could affect a patient's quality of life, Dr. Shrock's research showed that giving people hope and permission to be more themselves could also affect their length of life.

Dr. Shrock has written a book about the program he taught and the insights he gained. This book, Doctor's Orders: Go Fishing, is not about cancer, as much as it is about life. Readers can use the information to get well or stay well. People who are busy doing what they like to do not only tend to forget their aches and pains, but experience a positive effect on their quality and length of life. Dr. Shrock believes it is as potentially healing as anything else when people feel that they are being supported, listened to, and that they have a genuine connection with others.

Dr. Shrock now resides in Eagle Point, Oregon and lectures regularly about his "Going Fishing" approach to life.

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