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...

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Published in:Journal of Holistic Nursing Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 41 - 62
Main Author: Straneva J
Format: review tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Jun1991
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