scholarly journals Mitigating black claustrophobia: space, trauma, and healing modalities in the postcolonial narrative.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleema Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Healing Modalities

scholarly journals Distant Healing Intention Therapies: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. gahmj.2015.012. ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Radin ◽  
Marilyn Schlitz ◽  
Christopher Baur
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Clinical Efficacy ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Distant Healing ◽  
Experimental Protocols ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Nonlocal Nature ◽  
Broad Overview ◽  
Healing Modalities

This article provides a broad overview of “distant healing intention” (DHI) therapies, ie, intentional healing modalities claimed to transcend the usual constraints of distance through space or time. We provide a summary of previous reviews and meta-analyses that have explored a diverse array of DHI modalities, outcome measures, and experimental protocols. While some significant experimental effects have been observed, the evidence to date does not yet provide confidence in its clinical efficacy. The purported “nonlocal” nature of DHI raises significant methodological and theoretical challenges. We recommend several avenues for improving future research.

“Heal Thyself”: Holistic Women Healers in Middle America

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine J. Lawless
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Traditional Healing ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Healing Community ◽  
Middle America ◽  
Women Healers ◽  
Healing Modalities

In chapter 6, “‘Heal Thyself’: Holistic Women Healers in Middle America,” Elaine J. Lawless profiles a local “healing community” of women in or near Columbia, Missouri, who regularly meet and share knowledge about and practice together various healing modalities. In addition to learning from each other, she notes, the women in the group also learn new healing practices offered by healers who were visiting from other areas, so mouth to mouth and hand to hand learning take place all the time. They all claim a holistic approach, which guides their daily lives as well as their healing practices, and includes attention to complex understandings of how mind, body, and spirit work in conjunction within the human body. Through the stories of these women, Lawless offers a unique glimpse into their shared corpus of knowledge and the traditional healing beliefs and practices they espouse, as well as her own place within the healing community.

Three Dynamic Healing Modalities for the Treatment of Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders: Aromatherapy, Equine Therapy, and Creative Arts Therapies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Hitchcock Scott
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Traditional Treatment ◽  
Equine Therapy ◽  
Creative Arts Therapies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Healing Modalities

This chapter comprises three subchapters, and each subchapter offers a brief introduction to 1 of 3 healing modalities: (1) aromatherapy, (2) equine therapy, and (3) creative arts therapies. All 3 healing processes are considered to be well regarded in the field of addiction treatment. Yet the credibility of each one could benefit from more well-designed, large-scale, randomized controlled trials. Even so, there is significant research supporting the efficacy of each of the 3 treatment modalities. Safety is especially important with impulsive patient populations, such as those with dual diagnoses, addiction and trauma. All three modalities are able to be powerful, and at times transformative, when practiced by qualified health practitioners. For patients who struggle with substance abuse, co-occurring disorders and adverse childhood experiences, especially those who have felt as if they were failed by traditional treatment programs, a non-traditional treatment modality may provide just the right intervention.

Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake

2018 ◽  
pp. 240-255
Author(s):  
Marcia Mount Shoop
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Faith Tradition ◽  
Christian Institutions ◽  
Many Core ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Healing Modalities

Though Christian Theology profess a God who inhabits flesh, bodies have been historically and systematically ignored and reviled by many institutional expressions of this faith tradition. Even as many core Christian institutions resist the Incarnational symmetry between embodied practice and Christian theological professions, bodies explore and embrace healing modalities at the margins of Christian practice. Using the emerging wisdom of four particular healing explorations along the margins of Christian institutional life, this chapter explores the contours of Christian spiritual practices that fold out of trauma. By focusing on the institutional practices of Kevin Ladd with labyrinths, Shelley Rambo with the Warriors Journey Home project, Sr. Joanna Walsh with trusting touch, and my own Wandering Home Retreat for women, this chapter attends to these contours with an eye toward possibilities for institutional transformation around trauma.

A Contemporary View of Alternative Healing Modalities

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Joan Engebretson ◽  
Diane Wardell
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Healing ◽  
Contemporary View ◽  
Healing Modalities
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