Mental Healing - History
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

From Psychical treatment to psychoanalysis: considerations on the misdating of an early Freud text and on a hitherto overlooked addition to it (here reproduced).

30 Jul 2008 Freud's early paper Psychical (or mental) treatment, first published in a family reference book for educated lay persons, was reproduced in the Gesammelte Werke with a stated publication date of 1905. This date was subsequently called into question ... Read more...

[Displacement and isolation. Mental illness in the city of Medellín. 1878-1930.]

29 Jun 2008 The observation in the city of Medellín within the framework of urban history generated a surprising picture of subjects in hygiene and public health, among which we found the case of mental illness and the control systems proposed by civilian ... Read more...

Exercises for mind and body: Giulio Mancini, collecting, and the beholding of landscape painting in the seventeenth century.

30 Dec 2007 This article explores the intellectual foundations for the development of princely art collections, and of Italian picture galleries in particular, as spaces for combined physical and mental exercise and recreation. This study then establishes the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Healing - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From Psychical treatment to psychoanalysis: considerations on the misdating of an early Freud text and on a hitherto overlooked addition to it (here reproduced). 30 Jul 2008
• [Displacement and isolation. Mental illness in the city of Medellín. 1878-1930.] 29 Jun 2008
• Exercises for mind and body: Giulio Mancini, collecting, and the beholding of landscape painting in the seventeenth century. 30 Dec 2007
• Psychoanalysis and the self: toward a spiritual point of view. 30 Dec 2005
• Questions concerning the work of Daniel P. Wirth. 29 Nov 2005
• The realm of the will. Interview by Bonnie J. Horrigan. 29 Apr 2005
• [Intercession and healing. Religious content of the intercession gives strength to change] 20 Aug 2001
• [Walter Matthias Diggelmann--the healing effect of story telling] 19 Jun 2001
• Trance and suggestion: timeless interventions and implication for nurses in the new millennium. 30 Mar 2001
• John Foxe: exorcist. 30 Dec 2000
• [Comment] 30 Dec 2000
• [Health pedagogy instead of consolation. Theological adjustment to illness by Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Peucer] 30 Dec 2000
• Nonlocal mind: the seminal experiments of Bernard Grad. 30 Dec 2000
• Prayer and distant healing: Sicher et al. (1998). 30 Dec 2000
• To study the healing art. 29 Nov 2000
• Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation. 30 Dec 1999
• [The theory of degeneration and the professionalization of psychiatry in Spain, 1876-1920.] 30 Dec 1998
• Exorcisms used for treatment of urinary tract diseases in Greece during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. 30 Dec 1998
• Miracles: quirks of nature or the hand of God. 30 Oct 1998
• Pious pathology: J. L. Alibert's iconography of disease. 30 Dec 1997

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Technical information about 'Mental Healing'

Definition: The use of mind to cure disease, particularly physical illness.

Descriptor UI: D008602

Alternative terms: Mental Healing; Healing, Mental;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.190.525.500; E02.190.901.500;

Technical Notes: do not confuse X ref SPIRITUAL HEALING with SPIRITUALISM