Joan Borysenko PhD

Born October 25, 1945 / Boston, Massachusetts, USA / Medical Scientist, Psychologist, Author, Teacher, Mystic. Dr. Joan Borysenko is a pioneer in integrative medicine and a world-renowned spokesperson for this new approach to health. She has a clear vision to bring science, medicine, psychology, and spirituality together in the service of health and healing. As a scientist, clinician, and teacher, She has been on the leading edge of the mind-body revolution.

Trained as both a medical scientist and a psychologist, Borysenko has gone beyond her traditional academic training and developed depth and breadth in a number of fields including behavioral medicine, stress and well-being, psychoneuroimmunology, women’s health, creativity, and the great spiritual traditions of the world. She completed her doctorate in medical sciences at the Harvard Medical School where she also completed three post-doctoral fellowships and where she was an instructor in medicine until 1988.

Also a licensed psychologist, Dr. Borysenko was co-founder and former Director of the Mind-Body clinical programs at two Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals, now merged as the Beth Israel/ Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Borysenko facilitates lectures and workshops that blend science, psychology, and spirituality in a unique and powerful way. Her work has appeared in numerous scientific journals, magazines, and many other well-known publications.

Dr. Borysenko is the author or co-author of 14 books including the New York Times bestseller, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, which sold over 400,000 copies with a 20th-anniversary edition, newly revised being published in 2007. She is the founding partner of Mind/ Body Health Sciences, LLC located in Boulder, Colorado, and the Director of The Claritas Institute Interspiritual Mentor Training Program. She hosts a weekly internet radio show, Your Soul’s Compass, for Hay House and has become one of the most popular and sought-after speakers in the field of health, healing, and spirituality.

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