Rick Leskowitz MD

Dr.Eric (Rick) Leskowitz MD was a psychiatrist with the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH) in Boston for over 25 years, where he founded the hospital’s Integrative Medicine Project and was the Principal Investigator of a grant from the Langeloth Foundation to develop a comprehensive integrative medicine program at SRH

He has an appointment to the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Osher Research Institute, and he organized two HMS Continuing Medical Education conferences on “Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation”, as well as guest lectureships with spiritual teacher Ram Dass, and Trisha Meili (the Central Park Jogger).

A long-time meditator, he studied energy healing for many years with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere, and received advanced training in clinical hypnosis from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. His clinical work focused on integrating such holistic therapies as meditation, hypnosis and energy psychology into the multidisciplinary pain management work done at SRH, and he had a particular interest in the biofield model of phantom limb pain. He has edited three textbooks – Transpersonal Hypnosis (2000), Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation (2002) and Sports, Energy and Consciousness: Awakening Human Potential through Sport (2014) – and over 50 of his research articles can be found at ResearchGate.net. 

He has lectured and presented workshops regionally, nationally and internationally, most often with the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, which awarded him their Service Award in 2021. His documentary film on group energies in sports, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention, was broadcast nationally on PBS in 2012. He also has a longstanding interest in earth energies and global consciousness as catalysts for social transformation. His newest book, The Mystery of Life Energy, will be published in April 2024.