Formal research is essential to the advancement of healing. Numerous reports of significant improvements with healing, from both healers and healees, have not been sufficient to convince skeptics that healing really is effective
The Council for Healing has collected as many studies on healing as we could identify at this time. The combined collection from all sources is presented in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author. (For separate lists, see below)
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Where available, we have also included Abstracts. We welcome abstracts
from authors or from anyone else who has a copy of articles where
abstracts are missing from our list.
We have included a spectrum of reports in our combined list. The type of report is indicated at the end of each study:
CASE DISC = discussion META = meta analysis MAR = marginal value (to save researchers the trouble of hunting these down) MAR METHODS = a formal research study with seriously flawed methodology OBS = Observational report (series of cases) P = popular article Q = qualitative study RES = research SUR = survey
For a discussion on research methodology see: www.wholistichealingresearch.com/research.html
Our thanks to the following organizations for providing lists of research studies:
Healing Touch International (HTI) www.healingtouchinternational.org See separate list of HTI research studies Network Spinal Analysis Care www.associationfornetworkcare.com
This is a separate Literature Review (not included in master list)
Nurse Healers - Professional Association International (NH-PAI) www.therapeutic-touch.org/ Separate list of Therapeutic Touch studies - coming soon
These lists are updates to lists posted on www.wholistichealingresearch.com by Daniel Benor, MD, ABHM. We will also be posting lists of studies provided by Network Spinal Analysis and The American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA).
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