Energy healing is a complex intervention with the purpose of enhancing wholeness within the client. Approaches to complex interventions require thoughtful utilization of a wide range of research methods. In order to advance the research in this field, we sought to understand the healing practitioners' point of view by reviewing qualitative literature, research reviews, and commentary written by...

Through the use of concepts such as traumatization and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the distressing experiences of survivors are understood in psychology and psychiatry primarily as the behavioural symptoms resulting supposedly from an incomplete emotional and cognitive processing of traumatic events. Due to such an exclusive focus on the intra-psychic processes, besides the survivors'...

Concepts such as disease and health can be diYcult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like health, healing and wholeness is likely to remain elusive, because the disconcerting openness of the outlook gained from experience alone resists the reduction of first-person judgments (including th...

The 19th-century Maltese psychiatrist Thomas Chetcuti was born 3 years before the beginning of British rule in Malta, in 1797, in Mosta, a village in the centre of the island. He studied grammar, languages and classical poetry, as well as engaging in the study of philosophy and developing a great love for Christian literature. Having read law, he turned to pursuing medicine in Naples, to bring ...

Joseph V. Walker, M.D. Hollis and Carter. 10/6 net. The sub-title of this book is "a study in design for living" and its main thesis?that health in the full sense of the word is dependent on more than physical well-being, that the medical officer of health should properly be concerned with the welfare of the "whole man", and that "no part of life can be irrelevant to wholeness of being"? will m...

In this interview with social scientist Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., Pathways associate editor Lisa Reagan connects the dots between her insights from 15 years of holistic family wellness advocacy and Ray’s investigation of Cultural Creatives, a growing segment of the Western population transforming mainstream culture. Driven by their holistic values, integrated worldview and ability to synthesize vast ...

An integrated use of two measurement methods can detect medically diagnosable health conditions. The combination of PQC and EAV give information about the current individual conditioned healthregulation of the patient. This combination uses the position of so-called wholeness in life. The point of view of sustainability is addressed on meridians. Findings result is a functional assessment of th...