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We explore the concept of healer’s high, a phenomenon similar to runner’s high. We define healer’s high as a psycho-endocrine response of intense happiness and bliss, accompanied by a feeling of enhanced energy, experienced by health care professionals when they heal or help someone. We describe the endocrinology that underlies healer’s high, and posit
Sanjay, Kalra +2 more
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The Idea of Healing in A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor is an essay and a narrative, illustrated with photographs, which explores the personal story of a country doctor as well as the story of society and humanity.
M. Ayça VURMAY
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Traditional healers are an important source of psychiatric support in many parts of the world, including Africa. They offer a parallel system of belief to conventional medicine regarding the origins, and hence the appropriate treatment of, mental health problems.
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The Chicana Narrator as Healer: Reconciliation in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God
This article argues that the narrator of Ana Castillo’s So Far From God is a postmodernist ontological narrator whose project is to heal the Chicana mestizaje’s identity through storytelling.
Cahit Bakır
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Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Nepal: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Despite extensive ethnographic and qualitative research on traditional healers in Nepal, the role of traditional healers in relation to mental health has not been synthesized.
Franz, Lauren +6 more
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A Qualitative Study of Healers and Their Clients in Germany [PDF]
Background. The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of the relationships between healers and their clients in Germany. Methods. An interdisciplinary research team performed semistructured interviews with healers and clients and participatory ...
Besch, F. +5 more
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When one examines the concept of healing in the Old Testament and African (Yoruba) context, it is apparently quite important, but when one examines prestigious books on the Old Testament theology, it appears to be difficult to find a major section on God
David T. Adamo
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Background The study aimed to assess chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and QoL among patients attending two different treatment settings in Thailand.
Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer
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Treatment with aquatic plants by a Bagdi tribal healer of Rajbari District, Bangladesh
Context: Tribal healers mainly use land plants in their medicinal formulations; use of aquatic plants has been scarcely reported. Aims: The aim of the present study was to conduct an ethnomedicinal survey working with a Bagdi tribal healer of Rajbari ...
Mohsina Mukti, Mohammed Rahmatullah
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