By Daniel J. Benor, MD

Daniel Benor, MD

Combines  
•    Complementary/ Alternative Medicine
•    Integrative Care
•    Wholistic Healing

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

 *Revised 1/9/06

In: Shannon, Scott (ed), Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Mental Health , San Diego, CA: Academic/Harcourt 2001, 258-267.                                           
Posted 2/26/02

By Daniel J Benor, MD