A01 PSYCHIC HEALING and medium ship Flashcards
What us psychic healing
Treatments used to deal with health problems by our let mental means
What are the 3 explanations for psychic healing
Energy fields
Anxiety reduction
Placebo effect
Examples include faith healing and therapeutic touch
Talk about Energy fields
Explained by supporters in terms of the ability to detect a patients aura without touching their body
Health is restored by realigning the patients energy field
Support for this is the fact that it’s a popular treatment having been taught to atleast 10 nurses in the US alone
Anxiety reduction as an explanations for psychic healing
Explained in terms of the beneficial effects of contact with a sympathetic person
Kiecolt-glaser found that social support reduces stress and anxiety and enhances the effectiveness of the immune system
Placebo effect for explanation of psychic healing
Success of psychic healing may be explained using the placebo effect
Improvement occurs as a result of believing that an effective treatment has been received
What are the 2 sections for research studies on psychic healing
Therapeutic touch
The effects of prayer
Therapeutic touch
2 who tested it
Wirth
Rosa
What did wirth do and find
Patients with wounds who were treated with to or no treatment
Patients weren’t aware of their treatment so placebo effects couldn’t play a role
Found patients treated with to healed faster
Rosa et al finding and did
Tested to practitioners
Sat them inform of a screen with holes and put their hand through the holes.
On the the other side of the screen sat an experiment or who put her hand above the oraciones hands
They should’ve been able to detect the energy field of the band but they were only correct 44% of the time which goes against psychic healing
Talk about effects of prayer
Study shows that praying can have an effect on health
Research on effects of prayer
Cher
Ehat did Cher do and find
Christian strangers prayed prayed for a group of infertile women
Women who were prayed upon were twice as likely to become pregnant than those who weren’t
