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Therapeutic Touch: Placebo Effect or Energetic Form of Communication

Decker School of Nursing, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York.

The purpose of this paper is to consider whether Therapeutic Touch, a meditative healing technique, is a placebo or whether it is a form of communication with energetic or electrical properties. Both claims have been proposed by the techniques adherents. Peirces theory of signs and Wilbers epistemologically-oriented, new world paradigm were used as a framework for analyzing the merits of each premise. Therapeutic Touch is evaluated in terms of six elements of communication: the source, destination, channel, message, code and context. Comparisons are supported by rational argument and research findings.

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