This course will explore how acupuncture point combinations can be designed and used to build self-esteem, as well as treating depression and anxiety, through lecture, analysis of acupuncture point combinations, discussion, group work, and clinical case studies. We will explore the role of the heart and pericardium. The unique characteristics of depression related to each of the six organ systems that affect and are affected by depression, and associated point combinations, will be examined, as will the key features of different presentations of anxiety related to two main organs (plus three secondary organs) that affect and are affected by anxiety.
