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The Effects Of Integral Hatha Yoga On Self-Actualization, Anxiety And Body-Cathexis In Drug Users, Timothy J. Thorpe
The Effects Of Integral Hatha Yoga On Self-Actualization, Anxiety And Body-Cathexis In Drug Users, Timothy J. Thorpe
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The study was designed to discern the possible effects of Integral Hatha Yoga administered five times a week for four weeks to drug users at "Freedom House," a drug rehabilitation community at Eastern Psychiatric Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Experimental data were to provide sufficient information to reveal the differences in self-actualization, anxiety, body-cathexis and behavioral progress through the overall rehabilitation program, between a treatment and a control group.
In August of 1975, 11 patients at the drug unit received a lecture and demonstration of Integral Hatha Yoga. Eight of the patients agreed to take part in the study and …