Brian L. Weiss
Born: November 06, 1944 – New York City, New York, United States
Brian L. Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author whose work centers on past-life regression, psychotherapy, and spiritual healing. Best known for the bestseller Many Lives, Many Masters, he helped popularize regression therapy for a wide audience through subsequent books, lectures, and workshops on trauma, healing, and reincarnation.
Biography & Author's Journey
Brian L. Weiss built his professional identity inside conventional academic psychiatry before becoming a widely read public writer on past-life regression. Educated at Columbia University and Yale Medical School, he went on to serve as the founding chairman of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and later as chairman emeritus. The decisive turning point, by his own account, came when a patient he called Catherine failed to improve through conventional treatment and, under hypnosis, began describing past-life scenes and messages that Weiss believed illuminated her symptoms. That experience redirected a career rooted in mainstream medical training toward books, workshops, and lectures situated at the intersection of psychiatry, spirituality, and popular self-help. ((https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/may00/may00_profile_weiss.html))
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Community Voices
"Dr. Brian Weiss is a pioneering physician who has bravely introduced the healing power of past life memories into modern medicine"
— Judith Orloff
"Brian Weiss is truly a pioneer in bringing to broader public awareness safe techniques for alteration of consciousness"
— Raymond A. Moody
"Like Scheherazade, Weiss holds the reader's attention"
— Booklist
"I have personally experienced the miraculous healing power of past life regression as taught by Dr. Brian Weiss"
— Wayne W. Dyer
"Dr. Weiss integrates concepts of traditional psychotherapy and the exploration of his patient's spiritual unconscious"
— Joel Rubinstein
"Brian Weiss reminds us that: "We are a soul that comes with a body—not a body that comes with a soul."
— John Holland
"You cannot put it down without feeling empathetic with Dr. Weiss's conclusions"
— Andrew E. Slaby
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