Policy Statement for the ICM and The British Register of Complementary Practitioners (BRCP)
 |
ICM Mission Statement The Institute for Complementary Medicine is a focal point of learning and healing for those concerned with the future of humanity, the future of health care, and the way in which people are educated in personal development. It is a meeting place for those wishing to encourage the unfolding awareness in education, training and research into all forms of Complementary Medicine, thus giving a deeper understanding of the philosophies of life and living. |
The Institute for Complementary Medicine (ICM) is a Registered Charity that was formed in 1982 to provide the public with information on Complementary Medicine. As part of that programme, it has initiated a research project to develop ways to control, regulate and research all the different disciplines and techniques within the field, in order to protect qualified Practitioners and ensure safety to the general public. The ICM philosophy is to support Complementary Medicine as a unified profession, recognising a number of disciplines within a holistic framework. We recognise that ill-health and disease can stem from imbalance within the system as a whole. It is the aim of holistic practitioners to redress this imbalance with their holistic approach to health, and also to preventative healthcare. The ICM accepts that the philosophy of allopathic medicine is more usually one of treating symptoms while the aim of Complementary Medicine is treatment of the whole person, body, mind, spirit, and vital force. This may be achieved at times with minimal intervention.
We can resonate with Plato in asking the question: "What is Healing?" -
"The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body."
- Plato