Introduces an innovative approach to whole body healing that promotes the body's natural healing process and can be used to treat asthma, cardiac problems, and depression; enhance the immune system; relieve chronic pain; and detect illness. Doubleday Health Alt. First serial, Yoga Journal.
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This is a brief introduction to a noninvasive healing technique that, contrary to its name, does not involve touching. Therapeutic touch, developed in the 1970s by theosophist Dora Kunz and nursing professor Dolores Krieger, gets a stamp of approval from Wager, a Seattle physician who has been using it for over a decade. She briefly explains the technique's philosophical basis, how it is performed and its most common effects. Practitioners pass their hands over a patient's body a few inches above the surface, assessing the energy flow from the body, balancing that energy and transmitting outside energy to the patient. An adjunct to traditional medicine, therapeutic touch is said to promote relaxation and a sense of well-being, to relieve pain and to accelerate the body's natural healing processes. The scientific evidence is not compelling (eliminating the placebo effect and conducting double-blind studies pose significant research problems), but Wager gathers the available evidence to describe how the technique has helped, among others, premature babies and AIDs, cancer and Alzheimer's patients.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Best book on the market on TT.,
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This review is from: A Doctor's Guide to Therapeutic Touch (Paperback)
This is the ONLY book on the market about Therapeutic Touch written by a medical doctor. Dr. Wager has an obvious depth of experience and clinical sensitivity. She writes clearly and convincingly. The introduction by Dora Kunz, one of the founders of TT, is excellent. And the drawings are superb. We plan to use this book as a text for a course we are developing for physicians and nurses in Boston.
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A Doctor's Guide To Therapeutic Touch,
By Shawna L. Foiles (Morton, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Doctor's Guide to Therapeutic Touch (Paperback)
The problem that I have, is that this book's hard cover is correct but when I opened the book, the title page is; "The Safe Child Book" written by; Sherryll Kraizer, Ph.D. It is about sexually abused children and how to help them. A completely different book on the inside.... I have never encountered this before! Is spirit trying to tell me I may need this for some child somewhere? It's been an Interesting Day... So, I will have to leave it to others to tell @ this book that I so wanted to study. At least until I can find a copy that is bounded correctly!
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