The Power Factor: The Key to Conquering Addiction
George and Meg Patterson
Can you be set free? Is there an answer?
What you want, what you need, is POWER. Power to break the habit or practice. Power to deal with the problems that drove you to them in the first place. Power to heal the broken relationships with your family. Power to do something constructive in society. Power to change “the sorry scheme of things entire, and mould it nearer to our hearts’ desire”. Power to know and love the worthy God.
Is there such a power? Where is it to be found? How can it be obtained? How can you be set free?
The answers to these and many more questions are what The Power Factor is all about.
This book is an attempt to make a wider contribution to the solutions necessary in making, not just addicts, but a sick society whole in body, mind and spirit.
Publisher: Word Books, Milton Keynes, England (1986)
Dr Meg: An Autobiography
Meg Patterson
“I had no great ambition…to be a self-centered career woman. I did know that I wanted something meaningful…chellnging, in which I could use the skills God had given me,” said Meg on becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons at the age of twenty-five, one of only twenty women who had ever become Fellows in Edinburgh at that time. An unexpected meeting - some would call it chance, but Meg’s faith taught her otherwise - led her to a post at Ludhiana Christian Medical College in India. Her marriage to George Patterson, a journalist already known for his work in Tibet, at first seemed impossible because of their apparently irreconcilable vocations, but they knew that God would weave their separate livers into His purposes, so they went ahead into an unknown future. Work in India, Nepal and Hong Kong led Meg away from surgery and into the development of a unique treatment for chemical dependency.
Meg’s autobiography is largely an account of her lifelong struggle to have her revolutionary treatment recognised and financially supported in Britain and the USA. It is an exciting, often humorous and always inspiring story of unswerving commitment and perseverance, despite frankly admitted periods of despondency, and after forty years Meg concludes that “We were all pilgrims moving on…but our whole family had been brought into a glorious venture with God that no one in their wildest imagination could have foreseen.”
Publisher: Word Books, Nelson Word Ltd, Milton Keynes, England (1994)
Searching for the Impossible: The Quest to End All Addiction
Dr. Meg Patterson
Meg Patterson (nee Ingram) entered Aberdeen University, Scotland, at the age of sixteen, was the country’s youngest physician at the age of twenty-one, and the youngest surgeon at twenty-five, one of only twenty women who had ever gained the prestigious Edinburgh University’s Royal College of Surgeon’s Fellowship and the only one in general surgery.
Devoting her talents to serve the poor, she went to a missionary hospital in India where there was neither anaesthetic nor oxygen apparatus. On a holiday in the Himalayan mountains she met, and eventually married, the Scottish missionary journalist George Paterson and returned as a doctor in an even less equipped hospital. In her “search for the impossible” she expanded the hospital to provide medical treatment for rich and poor over a mountain region of five hundred miles and, under ten years later, at the age of forty, she was given an MBE by the Queen for her “outstanding medical work.”
When her husband went to Hong Kong on journalistic assignment she was appointed head of surgery in Hong Kong’s largest charity hospital of 850 beds. While experimenting with China’s dramatic use of electro-acupuncture in surgical operations she pioneered the innovative use of “NeuroElectric Therapy” to detoxify from all chemicals of addiction.
In the early 1970s she associated with two other noted United States surgeon/scientists in the new field of bioelectrical treatments of bond growth and epilepsy, Drs Robert Becker and Irvin Cooper, and became one of the leading groups of international scientists who created a major breakthrough in the treatment of drug addictions. in 197s Drs Snyder and Pert of the USA’s Johns Hopkins University discovered the brain’s receptors; in 1973 Dr Meg, as she was known worldwide, discovered her NeuroElectric Therapy in Hong Kong; in 1975 Drs Kosterlitz and Hughes of Aberdeen University in Scotland discovered the “endorphins” affecting pain and emotion; and in Sweden Dr Terenius demonstrated that electrical stimulation produced endorphins.
While these scientific discoveries confirmed Dr Meg’s theory in the treatment of addictions, she struggled against inertia, indifference, and often outright hostility to investigate and develop her breakthrough treatment in the notoriously difficult field of drug and alcohol addiction.
As NeuroElectric Therapy slowly became used and tested across the globe, Dr Meg continued to advance her “search for the impossible:” to find the lodestar of how the body is able to heal itself from all invasive diseases without the use of pharmaceutical preparations.
Publisher: The Long Riders’ Guild Press (2006)