Shaman, M.D.: A Plastic Surgeon's Remarkable Journey Into the World of Shapeshifting

By Eve Bruce

Book Overview

A highly successful plastic surgeon embraces shamanic healing techniques and helps her patients experience true beauty and ecstasy.

- The author has been featured by Healthy Living magazine as one of the top 19 holistic healers for the millennium.

- Shows readers how to embody the spiritual within the physical to shapeshift their lives on all levels.

- Both an exceptional personal journey and an extraordinary exploration of the nature of real healing.

As a dual board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and the first non-Quechua woman to be initiated into the Circle of Yachaks (bird-people shamans of the Andes), Dr. Eve Bruce sees herself as an agent of change in both worlds.

After traveling to Central and South America to study indigenous healing techniques, Bruce realized that although our culture is obsessed with narrowly defined standards of physical beauty, we actually devalue the physical because we separate it from the spiritual. She saw that her plastic surgery patients who felt ashamed of their "vanity" had the least successful outcomes. Those ready for change on emotional and spiritual levels were able to use the physical "shapeshift" provided by the surgeon's knife to transform their entire lives. By integrating the two healing modalities of surgeon and shaman, Bruce is able to help people shapeshift into newfound health on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual.

Because she bore her first child at sixteen, rose to the challenges of single motherhood, and worked her way through medical school, Bruce learned early to redirect the flow of her life, turning apparent obstacles into opportunities. As a powerful example of the human capacity for self-transformation, Bruce is uniquely qualified to inspire readers to redirect their own lives to places of beauty and self-acceptance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892819766
• ISBN13: 9780892819768
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A REMARKABLE STORY

I recommend this book very highly indeed. Eve Bruce is an extremely courageous woman, who has learnt a great deal from her fascinating, often painful, life, and sets a good example for coping admirably with adversity. She writes quite beautifully and very readably, and besides the fact that her personal story is an absolutely fascinating one, she is full of wisdom. The book will be of particular interest to those who are already pursuing some form of shamanic studies, but only those with very closed minds will have nothing to learn from it. For a 'real doctor' her grasp of the principles of so-called 'alternative medicine' is quite exceptional too! Ann Merivale

Great book!

I bought Shaman, MD because I had seen Dr. Bruce for a consultation for a breast reduction, and I wanted to know more about that word, "Shaman" and how it related to the surgeon who was to perform my breast reduction. What a great read! I really loved the fact that I had found a surgeon who was open-minded and it was nice to see another side to "practicing medicine." I really recommend this book to anyone interested in learning what shapeshifting means and how it can help to improve your life. Dr. Bruce is not only a great surgeon, but a talented writer, as well. Her book has definitely peaked my interest to learn more about shapeshifting and Shaman techniques.

a must have

This is my second copy. . . There's so much to grasp in this book that I need a second reference copy. . .. Just the notion that we have the ability to shapeshift our life from moment to moment and with an enormous heart. . . . what a great gift!!!

An education

This book was not only poetic and fascinating ... it was an education on so many levels. Must read if you are interested in shamanism, alternative healing, or the plight of the human spirit.