healee

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Related to healee: Heelys, healer

healee

(hiːˈliː)

1. (Medicine) a person who is being healed

2. (Complementary Medicine) a person who is being healed

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Such support is oriented toward stimulating the healee's own immunological system, for it is the healee who heals her or himself' (Krieger, 1993, p.

Exploring the experience and impact of therapeutic touch treatments for nurse colleagues

Contact: Dr David Healee, Postgraduate Head of Health Care Practice at the Auckland University of Technology.

RN Assistant to the anaesthetist update

The healing process becomes a cocreated experience, whereby the healer and healee develop a joint awareness about the body-mind state of the healee, and offers an alternative stance the healee can utilize.

Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, Body and Human Potential

Psychology, for example, can examine the dynamics of the relationship between healer and healee, and look at physiological processes that may be involved such as those studied by psychonueroimmunology (PNI)).

Doing theology in dialogue with psychology

In her book (see resources), Therapeutic Touch founder Delores Krieger describes it as follows: "The healer sensitively draws upon the universal energies that are the backdrop to all living events and within which both healer and healee [sic] are figures sharing a unitary nature.

Healing touch & SCI: is this therapy's approach at odds with conventional medicine's focus on fixing the pieces?

Dossey also examines research on "nonlocal" healing where the healee was unaware that prayer was being projected from a distance.