Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic Touch ( TT ) (English for Therapeutic touch) is a pseudoscientific alternative medical treatment method, a variant of the laying on of hands, in which the practitioner the patient does not affect, however. It is based on the widely used in the field of esoteric theory that has its own " energy field " (also Prana, Aura, Qi, and so called ) man have that constantly stand with the energy fields of its environment contacts.

Therapeutic Touch is an often scientifically examined alternative treatment method. An effectiveness could not be determined in these studies. TT practitioners have their alleged fundamental for the treatment of ability to perceive the energy field of a person, under controlled conditions demonstrate.

History

Therapeutic Touch was founded in 1972 by the two Theosophists ( Adyar -TG) Dolores Krieger, Lecturer in Nursing Science at New York University, in collaboration with Dora van Gelder Kunz ( Dora van Gelder, Dora Kunz, 1904-1999 ), President of the American Section of the Adyar TG published. The work of the well-known New York nursing scientist Martha Rogers (1914-1994), in which it is assumed that the person is an open system that is constantly on electromagnetic waves in the exchange with the environment, formed one of the bases for the development of TT.

Due to a publication in the prestigious American Journal of Nursing and by intensive lobbying of its proponents, the method used. In the U.S., about 100,000 people, including 50,000 nurses, trained in TT. More than 100 colleges and universities offered courses. The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association has received the diagnosis in 1995 Energy Field Disturbance ( disturbance of the energy field ) with TT as the primary intervention in their catalog.

Application

The goal is the user 's view, the human energy field, the fancy in the body and EXTEND on the body limits, to feel with your hands and harmonize. This is the contact will receive an additional " dimension" conscious " power steering ".

Scientific Assessments

Some careful literature reviews concluded that many of the relevant studies have methodological flaws. According to the criteria of evidence-based medicine, the postulated effectiveness of " therapeutic touch " therapy is not established.

In 1998, the then 11 - year-old schoolgirl Emily Rosa became famous as the author of a recent major scientific journals. She published an article in the peer -reviewed Journal of requiring the American Medical Association ( JAMA) about an experiment that they had two years earlier, so at age 9, carried out. This study shows that 21 TT handlers were not able to perceive the " energy field " of the hand of the experimenter when they could not see the hand. The experimental setup was very simple: Emily and the TT practitioner were separated by a screen of cardboard. In this screening were two holes through which the TT practitioner can stick his hands. On the other hand Emily held her hand either on the left or on the right hand of the subject without touching them. The order in which this occurred was determined by the toss of a coin at random. The TT practitioner had now to demonstrate the task that they can feel the energy field of a human being by stating, over which of their hands Emily just holding her hand. Random rates obtained in this experimental setup already an average hit rate of 50%. The 21 TT handler only came to a hit rate of 44%. After protests from Therapeutic Touch supporters of the experiment was repeated two years later. This time they came up with a hit rate of 41%.

Training

With the goal of integration into the European healthcare systems and the standardization of training were TT institutions in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and the Scandinavian countries as well as South Africa, the International Therapeutic Touch Association ( ITTA ), headquartered in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Through the development of guidelines, it contributes, in many European countries to guarantee internationally recognized by the various associations TT- Standard ( education, teacher training, quality standards, curricula, examinations ). This is the minimum condition for the exercise of TT training of 48 teaching hours of theory and 20 hours on case studies. Further qualifications have not been standardized.