Robert Todd Carroll
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healing touchHealing touch is a form of energy healing. The healer gently touches the patient, allegedly influencing energy that is believed to be within and around each human body. Illness allegedly disturbs this energy and the healer believes that her touch will help restore the balance, harmony, equilibrium, etc., to the "human energy system" and thereby promote self-healing by the patient. Healing touch is said to be a holistic therapy because it is based on the notion that healing involves some sort of wholeness or unity of the body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Like all energy healing, healing touch is based on magical thinking. See also alternative health practice, frontier medicine, therapeutic touch and vitalism. further reading |
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