Therapy

Therapy is goal oriented. Artistic, Behavioral, Cognitive; Acupuncture, Biofeed-back or Chiropractic, the A,B,C's of every practice is simply to feel better. Even with retail therapy, to say "one size fits all" is a bit of a stretch, that's one of the reasons a fluid definition of the term is a recognized part of our lexicon. Therapy's polymorphisms are accepted as bonfide aids on the continuum of our present-day zeitgeist.

On Christmas Day, 1998 the late Robin Williams starred in Patch Adams, a semi-biographical film about the unconventional medical practices of Hunter "Patch" Adams. The real life alum of George Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth Medical School is an author, comedian, physician and social activist who founded the Gesundheit! Institute in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The Institute was designed in 1971 as a free community hospital with the intention of delivering comprehensive traditional and alternative care to patients from birth to death.