psychic healing
Paranormal medical treatment
Psychic healing is the claimed ability to cure illness or injury through mental or spiritual means rather than medical treatment.
Practitioners may work through touch, prayer, visualization, or channeling supposed energies.
The term covers a range of practices from faith healing to therapeutic touch: She sought psychic healing after conventional medicine failed.
The field lacks scientific validation.
- guided imageryDirected mental scene creation
- third eyeMetaphysical perception organ
- hypnotherapyTherapeutic use of trance
- divine interventionGodly action in affairs
- aura cleansingPurifying one's biofield
positive energy · qi gong · mindfulness meditation · laying on of hands · integrative medicine · placebo effect
- Metaphysical Spiritualityspiritualism, theosophy, Christian Science, mediumship, channeling
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- psionicstelepathy, telekinesis, mind control, mind reading, ESP
- psychic phenomenatelepathy, clairvoyance, ESP, precognition, extrasensory
- energy healingreiki, energy work, aura cleansing, laying on hands, attunement
psychic healingevidence-based medicine
Clinical care guided by research
clinical medicine · biomedicine · medical science · surgery · chemotherapy
psychic healingempiricism
Knowledge through observation
skepticism · rationalism · naturalism · physicalism · scientific method
psychic healingsurgery
Invasive medical procedure
chemotherapy · radiation therapy · physical therapy · drug therapy · medical devices
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