with Dr Janet Hranicky Phd
Duration 14:49 min
The Simonton Cancer Center Patient Programs start with the heart and are based on the successful model for emotional intervention and support which Dr. Simonton pioneered in the treatment of cancer patients.
Dr Hranicky shares a strategy that supports your natural healing process, that brings balance and healing through meeting your unique psychological needs freeing up energy and building your natural life force.
It evolved from the concept that beliefs, feelings, attitudes and lifestyle are important factors affecting health. The program is a five-day educational and psychotherapeutic session for cancer patients and their support person, during which these concepts are explored in a safe, supportive atmosphere conducive to learning and a positive change.
The program focuses on the influence of beliefs and belief systems. Participants learn techniques for enriching their lives in order to promote their health; lifestyle counseling; relaxation and mental imagery or creative thinking exercises. Additionally, participants explore the importance of gentleness, and the role of stress, secondary gain, and other contributing factors to their disease. The issues of recurrence and death are also examined. By delving into these topics through the use of the group process, patients are enabled to implement these methods into their daily lives.
Ten Tenets of the Simonton Cancer Program
- Our emotions significantly influence health and recovery from disease (including cancer). Emotions are a strong driving force in the immune system and other healing systems.
- Our beliefs and attitudes influence our emotions thereby affecting our health and healing systems.
- We can significantly influence our beliefs and attitudes. As a result we shape our emotions, and therefore, significantly influence our health.
- Ways of influencing beliefs, attitudes and emotions can be readily taught and learned by using a variety of accessible methods that are presented in this program.
- All of us function as physical, mental, social and spiritual/philosophical beings. These aspects need to be addressed in the broad context of healing, with a focus on the particular needs of a person who is ill, and that person’s family, community, and culture.
- Harmony is central to health – balance among the physical, mental, and spiritual/philosophical aspects of being. This extends to relationships with self, family, friends, community, planet, and universe.
- We have inherent (genetic, instinctual) tendencies and abilities that aid us in moving in the direction of health and harmony (physical, mental, spiritual/philosophical and social).
- These abilities can be developed and implemented in meaningful ways through existing techniques and methods that are presented in this program.
- As these abilities are developed, proficiency evolves, as when learning other skills. The results is greater harmony and improved quality of life, which significantly impacts one’s state of health.
- These skills and insights also change our relationship with death by lessening our fear and pain, and freeing more energy for getting well and living life more fully today.
About Dr. Hranicky the Founder and President of The American Health Institute. She has been involved in health care delivery since 1972 when she was doing her internship at The University of Texas, Student Health Center in Austin, Texas. Dr. Hranicky has been a leading pioneer in developing the field of PsychoNeuroImmunology. For the last 25 years, she and her colleague, O. Carl Simonton, M.D. together have led the longest running Psychological Intervention Program for cancer in the world. They have trained thousands of physicians, nurses, and health care professionals in the renowned Simonton Cancer Center Model. Dr. Hranicky has gone on to expand this work in her own research and has developed the theoretical foundation and treatment protocol to be implemented in designing guidelines for a Standard of Care in Mind/Body Medicine and Cancer. Dr. Hranicky’s distinguished work is now available in a multi-media educational format “The Hranicky Psycho-Oncology Program: A Premier Intervention and Treatment Model for Integrative Cancer Care.”
Dr. Hranicky has collaborated, with her husband, Michael Galitzer, M.D., an Anti-Aging Medicine specialist in Los Angeles, California in developing The American Health Institute’s Program in Longevity Medicine. Dr. Hranicky is currently involved in research with the well known UCLA Professor Emeritus—Neurophysiologist, Dr. Valerie Hunt—looking at the specific patterns in the BioEnergy Field that correlate to the profound dynamics in understanding states of health and disease.
Dr. Hranicky utilizes leading edge technology in communication and stress management called the Process Communication Model® developed by the internationally known Taibi Kahler, Ph.D., and used by Dr. Teri McGuire, the former consulting psychiatrist at NASA, in the selection of astronauts for over twenty years because of its unique ability to predict specific distress patterns that correlate with an Individual’s Personality Type: Dr. Hranicky has integrated Stress Theories and Cancer to write “The Key to Me in Getting Well.”
Dr. Hranicky joined Burton Goldberg, Founder and President of Alternative Medicine Magazine and Future Medicine publishing in a project over the last several years to develop a Comprehensive Business Plan for designing The International Institute of Integrative Medicine—which would demonstrate a curriculum prototype for the New Whole Person Medicine of the 21st Century.
Janet Hranicky holds two bachelor degrees from The University of Texas and Drake University, two graduate degrees from Southern Methodist University, and a doctoral degree from The Fielding Graduate Institute. Dr. Hranicky is a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of California and is getting her Medical Degree in an International Medical School Program at Oceania University of Medicine, designed for people with advanced degrees and experience in the health care profession.
Dr. Hranicky has applied her knowledge in cancer research to developing an Anti-Aging Medicine Program. She and Dr. Galitzer have designed The Younger You® Program which is a comprehensive treatment program for anyone wanting to slow or reverse the aging process and maximize the potential for optimal longevity.
