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Nenah Sylver, PhD
Writer, educator, artist and musician, Nenah Sylver has devoted her life to the exploration of healing on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual levels. Her early training in music led to subsequent studies in spirituality and physics—all complementary paths to her lifelong passion, the science of frequency.
Starting as a young adult, Nenah worked for two decades as a singer-songwriter, playing piano and guitar. Her performances include New York City coffeehouses and clubs, and colleges nationwide. She wrote lyrics and music for two off-off-Broadway plays and won half a dozen songwriting awards. She also performed for Hospital Audiences, Inc., an organization that brings music to adults and children in hospitals, residential treatment centers, prisons, nursing homes, and educational facilities.
In 1996, Dr. Sylver received her PhD from the Union Institute (now The Union Institute & University) in Transformational Psychology, a multi-disciplinary program of holistic health, psychology, and gender studies. For fifteen years, she had a private practice in body-mind psychotherapy based on the principles of psychiatrist and natural scientist Wilhelm Reich. Then, in what began as a quest for solutions to her own health issues, Nenah started researching Royal Rife and his inventions along with other electromedical therapies. Her extensive knowledge of safe and effective holistic protocols eventually coalesced into five editions of The Rife Handbook.
Among other publications, Dr. Sylver’s writing credits in the areas of psychology, feminism, health and social change include The New Internationalist, Off Our Backs, Beiträge zum Werk von Wilhelm Reich (“Contributions to the Work of Wilhelm Reich”), and the anthologies Journeys of the Heart: Perspectives on Intimacy in America (Bruner-Mazel), Glibquips: Funny Words by Funny Women (Crossing Press), Closer To Home: Bisexuality and Feminism (Seal Press), An Introduction to Women’s Studies (Simon & Schuster), Transforming a Rape Culture (Milkweed Editions), Women, Culture, and Society: Readings in Women’s Studies (Simon & Schuster), Bullying: Beyond the Schoolyard (Teatro V!da), and Energy Medicine Technologies (Inner Traditions). Her volume of poetry, Birthing, was published by Woman in the Moon Publications. She has been cited in Utne Reader and The New Yorker. In addition, she published a short story in an anthology, Woman in the Window (STARbooks Press), which she also illustrated with original water color paintings.
In the past few decades, Nenah Sylver has become well known for her writing in the health field. In addition to articles in Natural Living Today and Natural Food & Farming, “Toxic Products, Deceptive Labels” appeared in Nexus. Dr. Sylver’s comprehensive book, The Holistic Handbook of Sauna Therapy, was published in 2004. In 2008, the two-part article “Healing with Electromedicine and Sound Therapies” (which was excerpted from Appendix C of The Rife Handbook) appeared in Townsend Letter. Portions of The Rife Handbook have been translated into German, Korean, and Polish.
The author has appeared on NBC-TV and on the Pacifica radio station WBAI-FM in New York City to discuss lifestyle choices. In other radio interviews she has talked about holistic health, complementary therapies, medical politics, electromedicine, and alternatives to toxic chemicals in the home. In 2016, she sponsored a conference in Tempe, Arizona, called “Rife Frequency Therapy, Electromedicine and Holistic Health,” at which she presented for over six hours.
In addition to being a featured speaker at conferences, Nenah Sylver conducts educational seminars for small and large groups. Her latest project is the professional recording of three albums of original songs, on which she sings and plays piano, guitar, and bass. The expected release dates are throughout 2022. She lives with her human and canine family near Phoenix, Arizona in the United States.