Therapeutic touch: placebo effect or energetic form of communication.
The purpose of this paper is to consider whether Therapeutic Touch, a meditative healing technique, is a placebo or whether it is a form of communication with energetic or electrical properties. Both claims have been proposed by the technique's adherents. Peirce's theory of signs and Wilber's episte...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Holistic Nursing Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 41 - 62 |
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| Formato: | review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun1991
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| Sumario: | The purpose of this paper is to consider whether Therapeutic Touch, a meditative healing technique, is a placebo or whether it is a form of communication with energetic or electrical properties. Both claims have been proposed by the technique's adherents. Peirce's theory of signs and Wilber's epistemologically-oriented, new world paradigm were used as a framework for analyzing the merits of each premise. Therapeutic Touch is evaluated in terms of six elements of communication: the source, destination, channel, message, code and context. Comparisons are supported by rational argument and research findings. |
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