SPIRITUAL HEALING RESEARCH LISTS, ABSTRACTS 

There is a wealth of research on Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, prayer healing, Reiki, and related forms of healing through bioenergies and wish/intention/meditation/prayer.

Formal research is essential to the advancement of healing. Numerous reports of significant improvements with healing, from both healers and healees, have not been sufficient to convince skeptics that healing really is effective

I have collected healing research reports for 30 years, aided recently by The Council for Healing. The combined collection from all sources is presented here in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author. (For separate topical lists, see below)

ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQRS TUV WXYZ

Where available, we have also included Abstracts. We welcome abstracts from authors or from anyone else who has a copy of articles where abstracts are missing from our list.

We have included a spectrum of reports in our combined list. The type of report is indicated at the end of each study:

CASE
DISC = discussion
META = meta analysis
MAR = marginal value (to save researchers the trouble of hunting these down)
MAR METHODS = a formal research study with seriously flawed methodology
OBS = Observational report (series of cases)
P = popular article
Q = qualitative study
RES = research
SUR = survey

For a discussion on research methodology see: www.wholistichealingresearch.com/research.html 

Our thanks to the following organizations for providing lists of research studies:

Healing Touch International (HTI) 
www.healingtouchinternational.org 
    See separate list of HTI research studies
   
Network Spinal Analysis Care
www.associationfornetworkcare.com
    This is a separate Literature Review (not included in master list)

Nurse Healers - Professional Association International (NH-PAI)
www.therapeutic-touch.org/
    Separate list of Therapeutic Touch studies - coming soon

These lists are updates to lists posted on www.wholistichealingresearch.com by Daniel Benor, MD, ABHM.

For an annotated bibliography of 191 studies to the year 2000 see

Benor, Daniel J. Healing Research: Volume I, Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution, Southfield, MI: Vision Publications, 2001; Second Ed Bellmawr, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2007. Click here for details

Benor, Daniel J. Healing Research: Volume I, Professional Supplement, Southfield, MI: Vision Publications, 2001. Click here for details