psychotherapy

Spiritual Healing and Psychotherapy

by Daniel J. Benor, MD

Spiritual healers have been known for bringing about unusual cures throughout recorded history. Until recently, modern medicine has viewed such reports with great scepticism. They are often attributed to placebo reactions, spontaneous remissions of symptoms of ordinary illnesses, remissions of 'hysterical' symptoms, or even to naive exaggerations or deliberate charlatanism.