Béla Scheiber and Carla Selby's text, Therapeutic Touch, published by Prometheus books, is an excellent introduction to the nether world of 'human energy healing' modalities like TT. This unfortunate practce is dubiously associated within the nursing profession conflicting with their stated goals to develop more 'evidence based research' in nursing.
This text covers TT's history and some of the hard fought battles to have this "modality" removed from institutions (as the authors themselves had embarked upon). It also provides several articles illustrating what is TT's greatest problem: the inability to explain how this phenomena works and, then, the fields further inability to reproduce any alleged results it had previously claimed to have made.
The only dissappointment I found rested in the fact that there are no in depth articles regarding the un-ethical aspect of health care professionals associating their professions with this unfounded phenomenon. Truly "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." But, as Béla Scheiber and Carla Selby's text clearly illustrates, TT and its proponents are woefully unable to do so.
In a nutshell the book is an easy an excellent read and resource.
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