Endorsements for Healing and Medicine
Foreword by Dr Michael Dixon, OBE
Preface and Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE: EARLY INFLUENCES
How the author became a doctor, and some of his early encounters with healing phenomena in medicine.
CHAPTER TWO: KUWAIT AND IRAQ
A brief overview of the author’s time as a hostage in Kuwait and Iraq. Some transformative/spiritual experiences he had there and some aspects of his own healing journey afterwards.
CHAPTER THREE: A NEW BEGINNING AND PLACEBO RESEARCH
The author takes on new career roles. His research on placebos (and nocebos) and their relationships to healing.
CHAPTER FOUR: LEARNING ABOUT ENERGY HEALING
Experiences of and interviews with some energy healers. Learning how to do energy healing. The evidence to support the efficacy of energy healing.
CHAPTER FIVE: SOME OTHER HEALING EXPERIENCES
The many different healing techniques in use in the UK. Investigation of three specific modalities: shamanic healing, bone setting and homeopathy. Animals and animal healing.
CHAPTER SIX: LOURDES, BELIEF AND HEALING
Research undertaken on healing in the Catholic pilgrimage town of Lourdes. Commentary on prayer, belief and healing.
CHAPTER SEVEN: HEALERS AND THEIR CLIENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF HEALING
Qualitative research undertaken with healers. A summary of three published research studies of healing.
CHAPTER EIGHT: PUBLIC VIEWS ON THE NATURE OF HEALING
Research with members of the public on the nature of healing; their sophisticated, nuanced understanding of healing
CHAPTER NINE: NATURE, ART AND HEALING
The healing power of nature, art and creative practices. Case studies and the evidence base
CHAPTER TEN: DOCTORS AS HEALERS
Summaries of in-depth interviews with six health care professionals who embrace healing within their work.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: MODERN BIOMEDICINE AND HEALING
The success of modern medicine, and some of its failings and problems. How health care practitioners can facilitate healing. How scientific medicine needs to change to be able to incorporate healing and spirituality.
CHAPTER TWELVE: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALING
The many facets and faces of healing. The author’s conclusions about the nature of healing and how we might understand it.
EPILOGUE: Dying healed
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