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“Combining the thoughts of our Mind with the Love in our Heart, we are able to control the electric currents, we are able to revive suspended forces which submit to the voluntary and involuntary commands of life and mind by which worlds are driven and beings moved. The Law of Mind, Matter and Motion” Andrew Taylor Still (born June 22nd 1874) Complementary Medical Services for Prisoners “You offered us a model that can be used not just in the prison service but in the future delivery of health in this country.” David Treddinick MP, 1998 Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Alternative and Complementary Medicine “In so far as evidence from published literature suggests, the pilot complementary medical treatment programme is unique, and therefore, from a research perspective, extremely valuable. The scope of treatment modalities and therapeutic options available, together with the scale of service delivery, is quite unlike any other complementary medical intervention in prison, either in the United Kingdom or in the United States. CMSP provides a multi-faceted service. By offering both a holistic complementary medical alternative to the prison health care service and a stand alone therapeutic treatment programme, CMSP provides both a medical service and a hybrid therapeutic regime intervention. As such, its potential benefits extend to many areas of prison life.” Centre for Crime and Justice Studies: June 1998 Maureen Mulligan is the director of CMSP, a cranial resonance sound treatment practitioner, on the executive council of the Cranial Osteopathic Association and a director of the European Cranial and Complementary Medical Association. - - - - - - - CMSP is a naturopathic, multi-faceted health service supplier of integrated drug-free medicine, treatment modalities and therapeutic options. The aim of this service is to promote health, self-esteem and quality of life for prisoners within the prison system through a professional, constitutional, Complementary Medical Service. Further to undertake research, evaluation and full clinical trials where appropriate to demonstrate the efficacy of CMSP’s treatment approach for prisoners presenting with patterns of control, violence, addiction, self-destruction, malice and related disturbances. CMSP was manifested over a period of fifteen years by Maureen Mulligan to establish constitutional Integrated Drug-free Complementary Medical Treatment to address patterns of violence, addiction, abuse, malice and related disturbances, some of which are considered ‘untreatable’ by current orthodox methods of intervention. This work is being achieved by the creation of treatment centres for inmates which facilitates recovery at its deepest level. We have developed a training centre in County Wicklow, Ireland to take this work further forward and to provide for a comprehensive training centre for complementary medical practitoners, conventional medical staff and prison staff. CMSP workforce CMSP has approximately 200 professional committed and dedicated complementary medical practitioners, Cranial Resonance (Sound treatment) practitioners, Cranial Osteopaths, Acupuncturists, Homoeopaths, Holistic Counsellors and Reflexologists all in active post-graduate placement training. We also have conventional medical representation for psychiatry, general medical practitioners, physiotherapists, nurses in placement training and under the clinical emphasis and training of constitutional integrated drug-free medical practice. European Association We have established the European Association which acts as a point of education, treatment programme training and person-centred training for members and students of various colleges, institutes and umbrella organisations who wish to further their professional skills in their observation of the ‘shadow’ nature of the patient. This body also acts as advisor and an authority to the prison service headquarters in the role of complementary medical healthcare within prisons. Training of practitioners The practitioners initially undergo a comprehensive induction into the prison environment. This includes therapeutic boundaries of working within a therapeutic community as well as: * Administrative structures of CMSP * Security * Suicide awareness within prisons. * Person-centred training. * Practitioner’s motivation and philosophy relevant to working within a prison environment. * Supervised Placement training - Certificate level * Cranial Resonance Practitioner Training * Constitutional, Integrated, complementary Medical Practitioner - Masters Degree Level The holistic philosophy of CMSP is based upon the Law of Cure. The CMSP holistic philosophy is fundamental to the treatment process since not only is the process person-centred, considering each person as an individual, but we need to access all levels of the being, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, in order to address the root of their problems and the abuses they have experienced. These can only be reached by an integrated transpersonal approach which brings about a multi-dimensional shift in the present moment and lays the foundations for future recovery, self-empowerment and responsibility for their state of health and their life. CMSP’s approach is based upon the Law of Cure which states that the movement of energy is governed by fixed Laws. Nothing can exist if it does not conform to some or other aspect of Law. Specifically, the Law of Cure informs that disease states in the physical body are a restriction of energy flow and reflect inner dysfunction of mind and emotions: “the cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole” (Plato) The seeds of disease, whether originating from apparently physical causes or genetic tendencies, can only develop in the fertile soil of inner dysfunction. Disease patterns held in the subtle bodies, that is the energetic systems of the body and collective blueprint together with the emotional, mental and causal forces, are released thereby obviating their physical manifestation. Natural medicine focuses attention on strengthening the defence system and, in doing so, challenges the disease or point of resistance. We know that the violated and disturbed mind cannot be accessed via manipulation through drugs or behavioural management techniques - however skilfully executed from a conditioned mind set. Such measures facilitate a relationship based upon suppression and control and which can be managed but held untreated. Violence cannot be maintained in this vortex of reality - it will leak out. The scientific mind which excludes the fact of the patient’s higher mind and ‘self-responsibility’ and the role of the Life Potency, merely measures certain ‘personality conditions’ as untreatable. This is valid only in the context of thought based perception. It is true that subtle disturbed personality conditions cannot be controlled by drugs and analysis and are viewed as untreatable. Such gross measures in an energetic sense cannot permeate the sound frequency of the holding body of the disturbances - that in the subtle or causal body of the patient. A mind that is limited to therapeutic relationship via the control of substances and that of intellectual measurement is fixed and subject to the law governing the movement of linear time. The speed of force of the energy of the disturbance or violence is faster than the motion of the measurement of the thought which is time bound. The energy of violence cannot be accessed with the limitation of consciousness vibrating on the frequency of ‘thought’. Food is medicine We see the CMSP treatment process as addressing the imbalances at all levels including birth trauma and insufficient nourishment. As food is medicine, it is also vital to address nutrition for subsequent constitutional treatment. Unit developments throughout the system We aim to make this information available to every prison in the country, offering viable alternatives to current practices such as constitutional drug-free complementary medical health care for the treatment of offending behaviour, self harm and self-destructive tendencies, violence, addiction, patterns of control, sexual malicious conditions, malice, crisis intervention, dealing with disturbances that are currently measured as ‘untreatable’ by orthodox methods, also a wide range of general health conditions. We have also had applications from China, Australia and Africa for CMSP units. Co-working with conventional medicine We co-consult in the best interests of the patient. We receive referrals from the medical staff and equally make suggestions to them on behalf of the patient. There is also an ongoing growth of understanding and mutual respect for the respective roles of each with regard to the health of the patient. We have also followed through interest in our work and are now offering training for staff. This training reflects the growing interest from control and medical staff into alternate ways of addressing the needs of inmates. Equally, the prison and conventional medical staff have needs to be met that conventional medicine can not always address. For these and other reasons, the staff have accepted our presence in the system very well especially since we are offering them the same treatment options as the inmates. There is a clear need for balance between the populations within the community which reflects in interpersonal relationships between inmates and staff. Impact of CMSP on the Prison Service In assessing the impact upon the inmates and the prison service, we have seen clear changes in the behaviour and communication of the inmates between all parties. There is less aggression, more civility and great compliance; in general a calmer atmosphere all round which benefits the prison control systems. Administration has noted a significant reduction in numbers of adjudications, incidents of aggression and other indicators of stress related illness, all of which support the development of our work. We have seen clear evidence of the inmates improved ability to handle situations in alternate ways without resorting to violence, aggression or defensive postures and actions. Independent research by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies These changes and benefits have been recorded in an independent research report prepared by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, formerly the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, which was commissioned by the Prison Service. It validates the work as a treatment regime that is both stand alone and which can co-work with conventional medicine and also which is unique in the UK and the USA. Constitutional, integrated medicine in the future Constitutional integrated drug free medicine cannot be measured as holistic if it is only serving those that can afford to pay. We are supporting the manifestation of an independent council for complementary medicine to facilitate a drug free option for patient choice which will exist under it own authority. Practitioner Training Please contact Maureen Mulligan on: Tel: 00353 45404584, e-mail: mulligan@unison.ie or via the contact page on this site. © Maureen Mulligan 1999
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