Mental Healing - Research News and Information

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Teaching the art of healing.

30 Mar 2009 The Healer's Art is a course based on the work of Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., that is designed to explore the art of medicine with medical students. It has been offered as an elective to second-year medical students at the University of Minnesota ... Read more...

Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: complementary treatments for the 21st century.

27 Feb 2009 Even in the 21st century, some seeds of tradition remain firmly grounded regardless of the technological advancements of humankind. One such "tradition" involves using unconventional means-including mental healing, herbal formulas, and healing hand ... Read more...

The patient who believes and the analyst who does not (1).

30 Dec 2008 A patient's religious beliefs and practices challenge the clinical experience and self-knowledge of the analyst owing to a great complexity of factors, and often take the form of the analyst's resistances and countertransference reactions to ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Healing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Whole person care: encompassing the two faces of medicine. 12 Apr 2009
• Teaching the art of healing. 30 Mar 2009
• Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: complementary treatments for the 21st century. 27 Feb 2009
• The patient who believes and the analyst who does not (1). 30 Dec 2008
• Scientific ways to study intercessory prayer as an intervention in clinical research. 30 Dec 2008
• [Can music heal?] 30 Dec 2008
• [Evidence about the power of intention] 29 Nov 2008
• Claiming power through hardship: Initiation narratives of Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel. 12 Oct 2008
• Traditional healers and epilepsy treatment on the Kenyan coast. 30 Aug 2008
• Programs for people with epilepsy--exploring innovative control options. 30 Aug 2008
• Commentary on the management of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa. 30 Aug 2008
• Management of hope. 30 Aug 2008
• Masters of their conditions II: intercultural theatre, narration and stage work with patients and healers. 30 Aug 2008
• Complementary treatment of psychotic and epileptic patients in malaysia. 30 Aug 2008
• Remarkable recoveries: research and practice from a patient's perspective. 30 Jul 2008
• 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
• Noticing. 29 Jun 2008
• Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: effects of distant intention on the patients' autonomic nervous system. 29 Jun 2008
• Soothing tunes. 29 Jun 2008
• Commentary on "religious activities of inpatients and their family visitors in Taiwan". 30 May 2008

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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