Total Biology was conceived by Dr. Claude Sabbah of Marseille, France, a great medical thinker and innovator. He drew on the following:

• his over 35 years of experience as a physician in several disciplines – emergency medicine, sports and hyperbaric medicine, cancer research;

• an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis of scientific work and publications of animal and plant research

• the research of psychologists and other doctors, including Dr. Ryke Hamer of Germany;

• his training in neurolinguistic programming.

Sabbah made a synthesis of all of the above into a practical healing knowledge which he named Total Biology of all Living Things (“Biologie totale des Etres vivants”) which provides a framework for understanding how a person becomes ill and the tools to help regain health and well-being.

With his depth of knowledge and experience, Sabbah’s special contribution is describing and developing tools that can very effectively help a person open up his own emotional story, become aware of the emotional trauma underlying any condition and connect with the root causes of disease or ‘dis-ease’.

The Foundations of Total Biology
For several years, Sabbah had been asking the tough questions – “why is this person sick with this disease? why now? what are the factors that triggered this illness? what can be done to promote healing? – and doing his own research. Then in 1984/85 he was introduced to the work of Dr. Ryke Hamer of Germany.

Hamer’s own experience with cancer was the catalyst that powered his intensive research of over 10,000 cases using CT scans of the brain through the years 1979 to 1981 to make the breakthrough discovery of the relationship between emotional conflict and disease, more specifically the triad of psyche (or emotional conflict)/brain/body. Hamer came to recognize that the brain has a critical survival function which constantly monitors stress energy of the individual. In situations of sudden and unexpected overwhelming stress, or sustained extreme stress, the brain has the capacity to respond by a specialized mode of function (the disease) and it can switch this function off again when the conflict that triggered this survival response is resolved or cleared.

He learned that disease does have a meaning, namely the survival response of the brain to extreme, life-threatening stress to the individual. Dr. Hamer called his discoveries New Medicine (and now German New Medicine) and they are outlined in his book “Summary of the New Medicine”. (Hamer’s research to date exceeds over 40,000 cases and the same rule of the triad holds true – specific conflict, area of the brain involved, disease or dysfunction in the body – at a 100% !)

From 1985, Sabbah utilized Hamer’s findings in his clinical work and continued to research, study and collaborate with psychologists and other scientists to enhance his understanding of disease and healing to the benefit of his patients in improved outcomes. His concept of Total Biology draws from:

• Hamer's New Medicine

• traditional Western and Eastern Medicine

• observations of and the natural laws formulated from studies of the plant and animal kingdoms

• concepts derived from psychological research

  • memorized cellular biological cycles

  • transgenerational psychotherapy or biogenealogy

  • ‘mini-maxi schizpophrenia’

• NLP

• ….and much more.