UTILITIES INTERACTIVE EMERGING An Interview about the Emergence of Alternative Med. with a Practitioner of: - - THERAPIES featured study: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - t h e r a p e u t i c - t o u c h - m e n u - s y s t e m Overview: Therapeutic touch is a new-age, energy-healing system that is gaining prominence in American medical facilities and hospitals due to its astounding ability to heal people by the manipulation of energy fields, emotions and feelings. The therapy is based on the belief that the therapist has the capacity to affect the patient's level of pain without prescribing any drugs or even touching the patient physically. Description: This nonpharmacological therapy has no side effects and can be used to decrease subjects' perception of pain as either a one time experience or as a series of days intervention. Therapeutic touch was developed by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., Professor Emeritus at New York University, and Dora Kunz, a healer. Therapeutic touch takes many of its tenets from visualization, laying on of hands, and aura therapy, three well respected healing practices. The name therapeutic touch is really a misnomer because there is generally no physical contact in therapeutic touch, except in dire circumstances, such as severe trauma and pain. It is not necessary for the therapist to absorb a patient's energy vibes by physically touching him or her; the therapist can...
