James L. Oschman, Ph.D.
Jim Oschman is the author of a ground-breaking series of articles on
"healing energy" published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. These articles have now been
developed into a book, Energy Medicine: the scientific basis, published in the Spring of 2000 by Harcourt Brace/Churchill
Livingstone, Edinburgh. This book is giving the most skeptical academic scientists a theoretical basis for exploring
the physiology and biophysics of energy medicines.
A
new book, Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance, will be published in the spring of 2003 by Harcourt
Health Sciences/Butterworth Heineman, Oxford.
Jim is one of the few academic scientists who has explored the basis
for complementary and alternative medicines. He has published 26 full-length scientific articles in academic scientific
journals and 40 articles in alternative and complementary therapy journals. In his work, he refers to the same science
that provides the foundation for modern clinical medicine.
Jim lectures widely on the energetic phenomena
taking place in the therapeutic situation. He has developed useful insights that can help all therapists better understand
and advance their work and explain it to others.
Jim has both the academic credentials and the background in alternative
therapies to carry out his explorations. He has degrees in Biophysics and Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.
He has worked in major research labs around the world. These include Cambridge University in England, Case-Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio, the University of Copenhagen, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was on
the faculty, and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, where he was a staff scientist. His many scientific
papers have been published in the world's leading journals. And, to learn about the theories and practices underlying
complementary methods, Jim has both taught and attended classes at various schools around the world, and experienced a wide
range of bodywork techniques. This has brought Jim some distinctions, including acting as President of the New England
School of Acupuncture, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Rolf Institute. Jim continues his research and writing
in Dover, New Hampshire, where he is President of Nature's Own Research Association. Recently, Jim is increasingly
being invited to present the concepts emerging from his research to medical professionals at various hospitals. He has
also become involved in the development of cutting-edge medical devices and other applications of the emerging concepts
of energy medicine.
Recently Jim became a
member of the Scientific Advisory Borad for the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine in Washington, DC. On November
16, 2002, Jim and a number of other individuals were presented with the Foundation's Founders Award at a ceremony held
at the Madison Hotel in Washington, DC.