About Michael Samuels, M.D.
Michael Samuels, M.D. has worked with guided imagery and cancer patients for thirty years. He has a private practice that uses guided imagery with cancer patients and people with life threatening illness and he teaches workshops about guided imagery and cancer nationwide. His book, Seeing With the Mind’s Eye., written in 1975 was the first comprehensive book on guided imagery and is an imagery classic. He is also the cofounder and director of Art As A Healing Force, a project started in 1990 devoted to making art and healing one. He is the author of fifteen other books including the best selling Well Body Book, Well Baby Book, Well Pregnancy Book, and Spirit Guides and Creative Healing, How to use art, writing, music, and dance to heal body and soul. .
Brief Biography- Dr. Michael Samuels
Born New York City, 1942
Brown University, 1960-1963
New York University College of Medicine, M.D., 1967
Research immunogenetics, New York University, 1964-1967
Residency, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center San Francisco, 1967-1968
United States Public Health Service, Hopi Indian Reservation, 1968-1969
Marin County, California, Department of Public Health, Physician, 1969-1975
Co-founder, co-director, Physician, Headlands Clinic, Bolinas, California, 1970-1975
Author, 1972-1997
Workshop leader and teacher, guided imagery for patients with life threatening illnesses, 1985-1999
Private practice and consultation in guided imagery for patients with life-threatening illnesses, 1975-1999
Advisory boards of Commonweal, Tamalpa institute, Alpha institute
Co-Founder and Director, Art as a Healing Force Program, 1990-1999
Performance artist doing ritual to heal the earth and make art and healing one. 1993-1999
Books
The Well Body Book
Be Well
Spirit Guides
The Well Baby Book
The Well Child Book
The Well Child Coloring Book
The Well Pregnancy Book
Well Body, Well Earth
The Well Adult
Take Charge Of Your Arthritis
Take Charge of Your Hypertension
Take Charge of your Heart Disease
Seeing with the Mind’s Eye
Healing with the Mind’s Eye
Creative healing, How to use art, writing, music and dance to heal body and soul
Path of the feather, Medicine Wheels and spirit animals for healing
Spirit Body Healing