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Complementary energetic practices : = An exploration into the world of Maine women healers.

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Title/Author:	Complementary energetic practices :/
Reminder of title:	An exploration into the world of Maine women healers.
Author:	Markides, Emily Joannides.
Description:	1 online resource (292 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International58-04A.
Subject:	Health education. -
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ISBN:	9798209293101

Complementary energetic practices : = An exploration into the world of Maine women healers.
Markides, Emily Joannides.

Complementary energetic practices :An exploration into the world of Maine women healers. - 1 online resource (292 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--The University of Maine, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references

This study employed a phenomenological perspective that explored, through thematic analysis, the structure of the lived experience of twenty-four women healers in the state of Maine. This perspective combined a focus on the overall meaning of the healing practices being investigated with an emphasis on selected passages in the interviews that illustrated important themes of complementary energetic practices. Complementary practices refer to the wide range of modalities that fall outside the established fields of the medical and mental health professions. Specific practices explored in this study were: acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, emotional cleansing work, direct energy work, homeopathy, osteopathic medicine, polarity therapy, Qigong, Reiki, therapeutic touch, and vibrational medicine. Based on their state-wide reputation, two women healers were selected to represent each of the eleven modalities covered in this study to permit both within-group as well as between-group comparisons. Two traditional medical doctors were also added as a backdrop to provide a sharper focus and a means of identifying differences and similarities between complementary and conventional medical practices. "Energetic" or "mind/body" are terms used to describe an emergent energetic model of healing that encompasses in an interdependent mode physical, psychological, spiritual, social, and cultural perspectives. This energetic model is not new. It is traced to healing practices in ancient cultures like Greece, Egypt, India, and China, and is found in all periods of recorded history. In this study, the diverse practices represented in the energetic model share a view of the client as a total reality: body, mind, spirit. The four approaches employed by this energetic model--wellness, prevention, empowerment, and early intervention--are shown to coincide with the central foci of the field of counselor education. As the emphasis in counseling and in other health care practices shifts toward preventive health and early intervention more attention will be focused on the need for greater client involvement and partnership between client and health care practitioner, the very cornerstones of complementary practices. The aim of these practices is to preserve and maintain a health that is not only the absence of disease, but rather, ideally, a "high-level wellness." Another aim is to provide meaning and purpose in all aspects of life, including the search for meaning and purpose in illness and disease, death, and dying; to empower clients and assist them with choices, hope, and relief of suffering. Finally the shifting of emphasis is from cure, which is an end-state and the ultimate goal of the conventional medical model, to healing as an evolving condition that can continue even unto death. The healing beliefs, approaches, and premises of complementary energetic practices, when studied individually, may appear quite insignificant as compared to those characterizing the large body of conventional medicine and psychotherapy. However, when taken collectively, they seem to form part of a jigsaw puzzle that is beginning to give shape to the formation of a new and more integrated view of reality. The findings from this study imply that counselor education programs could be enhanced by incorporating the techniques and approaches inherent in the energetic model. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798209293101Subjects--Topical Terms:

585977
Health education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

alternative therapiesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Complementary energetic practices : = An exploration into the world of Maine women healers.
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