Anthroposophically Extended Medicine is a holistic approach to medicine beginning with fundamental medical and therapeutic training, then adding spiritual scientific studies outlined by Rudolf Steiner. The result is an integrated image of the whole human being in illness and in health. This makes it possible to have both an holistic and rational approach to physiology, pathology and therapy.

Anthroposophic medicine and therapies constitute a holistic and human-centered approach to healing and understanding human illness.  These approaches recognize and utilize modern medicine’s vast information and rigorous methodology.  Each anthroposophic therapist is fully credentialed in his/her profession, for example nursing, medicine, massage therapy, art therapy, music therapy, etc.

The anthroposophic approach goes further than conventional modern therapeutics, adding knowledge of the laws of the living organism, the psyche, and the spirit.  This knowledge is derived from a spiritual scientific methodology which expands on conventional science.  It requires - besides the ongoing professional, personal, and moral development required of every true health professional - an active meditative life.  This inner activity leads to a deepened capacity for apprehending the whole human being.  Such a meditative journey was outlined by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) in many books and lectures, and has been practiced and written about by many authors since that time.

The result is an integrated image of the whole human being in illness and health.  This makes possible a holsitic but also rational approach to the healing professions.  Anthroposophic medicine and therapeutics are to be found in over 60 countries around the world, practiced by thousands of highly trained health professionals.  Health professions with established anthroposophic approaches include nursing, art therapy, movement therapy, music therapy, massage, and medicine.  Training in these approaches are well-established in Europe, and some trainings also exist in the US, Canada and elsewhere in the world.

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