Farzad Goli
Farzad Goli is a medical psychotherapist, author, and philosopher.[1] He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Body, Mind, and Culture, a guest researcher at the University of Freiburg in Germany, and a faculty member of Energy Medicine University.[2][3] His work on the areas of psychosomatic medicine, transpersonal psychology, and cultural psychology resulted in the publication of Biosemiotic Medicine: Healing in the World of Meaning, by Springer in 2016.[4][5][6]
Life and works
Farzad Goli, M.D., completed his medical fellowship in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg in Germany.[1] Since the early 2000s, he has been designing and teaching course contents for multiple systemic and transpersonal psychology programs, and most recently on the models around the philosophy of medicine and biosemiotics.[7][8] This work resulted in the publication of Biosemiotic Medicine: Healing in the World of Meaning by Springer in 2016, as part of Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality,[4][5][6] which follows the works of Thur Von Uexkuell on biosemiotics, expanding this meaning-making system into the field of medicine through solving for mind-body problems, specifically placebo responses.[9][10][11]
Based on his theory of Biosemiotic Medicine and research on this topic, Goli created Bioenergy Economy as an integrative model of care.[12][13][14] His book on the topic, Bioenergy Economy: A Methodological Study on Bioenergy-Based Therapies (2010) has led to the development of a curriculum for post-graduate courses offered at the Energy Medicine University in Sausalito, California.[3][15]
As the founder and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Body, Mind, and Culture, he has established a peer-reviewed journal in collaboration with University of Freiburg's Albert Ludwig department of psychosomatic medicine, and Danesh-e Tandorosti Institute.[1][2] Publications help health system managers and therapists to make more integrative decisions focusing on designing more humanistic health promotions and clinical settings.[16]
Other works include Persian books written by Goli on transpersonal and cultural psychology and philosophy: A bridge, thirty-three contemplations; Conscious evolution knowledge; Life-oriented Medicine; Nothing nothings.[17] A bridge, thirty-three contemplations, was later presented as a TEDx talk in 2019.[18]
Bibliography
Books and articles in English:
- Goli, F. (2022). Body, Meaning, and Time: Healing Response as a Transtemporal and Multimodal Meaning-Making Process. In: Nadin, M. (eds) Epigenetics and Anticipation. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 45. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17678-4_6
- Fritzsche, K., Diaz-Monsalve, S., Abbo, C., Goli, F., Dobos, C.M. (2020). The Doctor–Patient Relationship. In: Fritzsche, K., McDaniel, S., Wirsching, M. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27080-3_4
- Editor: Goli, F. (2016). Biosemiotic Medicine: Healing in the World of Meaning. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-35092-9
- Goli, F. (2010). Bioenergy Economy: A Methodological Study on Bioenergy-Based Therapies. Xlibris Corporation LLC. ISBN 978-1-4535-3867-8
See Also
- Biosemiotics
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Transpersonal psychology
- Cultural psychology
- Meaning-making
- Placebo
- Hyle
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Profile: Farzad Goli". researchgate.net.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Editorial Team | International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture". ijbmc.org.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Faculty Bios | Energy Medicine University". energymedicineuniversity.org.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Faghfoory, Amir P. (2021). "Book Review: Biosemiotic medicine: Healing in the world of meaning". American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. 63 (3): 269–272. doi:10.1080/00029157.2020.1800304. ISBN 978-3319350929 – via Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
This ambitious book attempts to provide a unifying and systems-based model of medicine that is rooted in biosemiotics - an emerging scientific paradigm focused on intrinsic meaning-making in biologic systems.
Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bogusławska-Tafelska, Marta (2020). "New narration in practicing western integrative medicine: linguistic, ecolinguistic, and biosemiotic aspects". Journal of Linguistic Intercultural Education. 13: 2, 7. doi:10.29302/jolie.2020.13.3 – via ResearchGate.
Communication signs are hypothesised to open the patient up to a nonlocal relation with the therapist and, ultimately, incite regulatory, self-healing processes (cf. Walach 2015; Goli 2016).
Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nadin, M. (2018). "Redefining medicine from an anticipatory perspective". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 140 (140): 21–40. doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.04.003 – via ResearchGate.
In this respect, it is time to bring up, in addition to Jakob Uexküll, contributions in the volume on Psychosomatic Medicine (edited by Thure Uexküll von, 1997), Eugen Baer's Medical Semiotics (1988), as well as Biosemiotics in Medicine (edited by Farzad Goli, 2016).
Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Flexer, Michael J. (2020). "If p0, then 1: The impossibility of thinking out cases". History of the Human Sciences. 33 (3–4): 175–197. doi:10.1177/0952695120944032 – via SAGE journals.
Biosemiotics as an area of academic research certainly exists, as a slow-growing presence evidenced by the recent publication of Goli (2016).
Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Giorgi, F; Tramonti, F; Fanali, A (2020). "A Biosemiotic Approach to the Biopsychosocial Understanding of Disease Adjustment". Springer International Journal. 13 (3): 369–383. doi:10.1007/s12304-020-09394-9.
In this perspective, placebo should also be considered as a real physiological phenomenon arising from the patient’s expectation to attain positive goals and, as such, be included in the framework of biosemiotics (Goli et al. 2016).
Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Arandia, I.R.; Di Paolo, E.A. (2021). "Placebo from an enactive perspective". Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 1884. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660118. PMC 8206487 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 34149551 Check|pmid=value (help).The concepts of agency and sense-making resonate with meaning-response accounts of placebo phenomena (Moerman and Jonas, 2002; Goli, 2016).
- ↑ Baldt, B; Slunecko, T (2022). "Shared Medical Decision Making Reconsidered: Challenging an Overly Cognitivist Perspective with a Linguistic Approach". Health Communication: 1–11. doi:10.1080/10410236.2022.2065736. PMID 35635085 Check
|pmid=value (help) – via Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.The paternalistic model – following the principle “doctor knows best” – placed the responsibility for medical decisions solely on the physicians (Goli et al., 2020).
Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Chiffi, Daniele; Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Grecucci, Alessandro (2021). "Meaning and Affect in the Placebo Effect". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 46 (3): 313–329. doi:10.1093/jmp/jhab002. ISSN 0360-5310. PMID 34106280 Check
|pmid=value (help) – via Oxford Academic.The reason why we take Peirce’s pragmaticism rather than his semiotics (see e.g. Goli, 2016) as the grounding theory for placebo effects is that the former is his mature, fully general and logical theory of meaning.
- ↑ Ghassemi, Z; Vahedi, S; Tabatabaei, S.M (2021). "Effectiveness of Bioenergy Economy Intervention on Self-compassion, Self-efficacy and Weight Loss in Women with Obesity". Iranian Journal of Health Psychology. 4 (4): 27–46.
Bioenergy economics is one of the therapies that control the mind and body and is based on energy... In this approach, health is the result of the interaction of [physical, energy, spiritual, and mental] systems in humans. (Goli, 2010; Levold & Goli, 2017).
- ↑ Fritzsche, Kurt; McDaniel, Susan H.; Wirsching, Michael, eds. (2020). Psychosomatic Medicine: An International Guide for the Primary Care Setting. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 315–322. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27080-3. ISBN 978-3-030-27079-7.
This model shows that life is a meaning or functional system. The signs in the form of matter (e.g., atoms, molecules, cells), energy (e.g., electrical signals in nervous system), symbols (e.g., words, images, machine codes), and reflections (e.g., mindful moments, metacognitions) can be interpreted and translated into each other (Goli et al. 2016).
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- ↑ "Bioenergy Economy: Consciousness Model of Healthcare | Talk with Dr Farzad Goli". youtube.com.
- ↑ "Whole-Body Experience and Salutogenesis". brynmawr.edu.
- ↑ Yune, So Jung; Kang, Seung Hee; Park, Kwihwa (2021). "Medical Students' Perceptions of Patient-Doctor Relationship in South Korea: Concept Mapping Analysis". Frontiers in Public Health. 9: 658220. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.658220. ISSN 2296-2565. PMC 8634939 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 34869134 Check|pmid=value (help)....the doctor–patient relationship is influenced by the socio-cultural context (Goli at al. 2020).
- ↑ "Publications | Body, Mind and Culture". tanravanfarhang.ir.
- ↑ "Farzad Goli: A bridge between now and ever | TED Talk". ted.com. 29 January 2019.
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