ENGLISH VERSION
Marcelo Saad. MD, Ph.D (S. Paulo, Brazil) - Physician, board-certified in Rehabilitation Medicine and Acupuncture. Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences by the Federal University of S. Paulo. Current director of the Spiritist-Medical Association of S. Paulo. Coordinator of Research Department at the Brazilian Spiritist-Medical Association. Co-founder of the Interfaith Coalition on Health and Spirituality. As an independent researcher, he is also engaged in events organization, scientific publication, editorial collaborations with journals and books, technical lectures, and scholar tasks. His primary interest fields are religiosity in healthcare, anomalous phenomena of consciousness, and complementary spiritual therapies.
Edited BOOKS
Scientific Production in ENGLISH (for all publications click here)
2022 - PAPER - Shared Death Experiences: A Multicultural Survey.
2022 - BOOK - Spirituality and Mental Health: Exploring the Meanings of the Term "Spiritual"
2021 - PAPER - Advocating for the concept of spiritual health
2021 - PAPER - Spiritual Well-Being Affects Emotional and Physical Health
2021 - PAPER - Religion and health: most of times, an excellent combination
2021 - PAPER - A model of the spirit that could explain some anomalous phenomena of consciousness
2020 - PAPER - Should Spiritual Care Be Covered by Healthcare Insurance and Health Systems?
2019 - Chapter - Spirituality, Religiousness and Physical Health: Scientific Evidence
2019 - Chapter - Acupuncture: What Controversies? What Pathways?
2018 - PAPER - The Patient with Overestimated Faith, Expecting for a Miraculous Healing
2017 - PAPER - The Continuum of Mind-Body Interplay - From Placebo Effect to Unexplained Cures
2017 - PAPER - Spiritist Complementary Therapies - Ways for Future Integration to Medicine
2017 - PAPER - Potential Contribution of the Medical-Spiritist Model to a New Paradigm on Medicine
2017 - PAPER - Implications for public health of the religiosity-longevity relation.
2016 - PAPER - Programs of Religious/Spiritual Support in Hospitals - Five "Whies" and Five "Hows"
2015 - PAPER - Toward the Concept of ‘Spiritist Chaplaincy’
2015 - PAPER - Poor Results in Pain Management: Suggestion for How to Interpret Them
2015 - PAPER - Informal Mind–Body Techniques [Irritable Bowel Syndrome]
2012 - Chapter - Distant Healing by the Supposed Vital Energy – Scientific Bases
2012 - Chapter - Complementary Therapies – Considerations Before Recommend, Tolerate or Proscribe
2012 - Chapter - Spiritual-Religious Coping – Health Services Empowering Patients’ Resources.
2011 - Chapter - Acupuncture for Inpatients in General Hospitals – Special Features of this Service
2009 - PAPER - Why Medical Acupuncture?
2009 - PAPER - Integration of acupuncture for out- and inpatients in general hospital in Brazil