These lists to March, 2000 are compiled from Healing Research, Volume 1.

Bucholtz, Randi Anderson, The use of Reiki therapy in the treatment of pain in rheumatoid arthritis, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: M.S. in Nursing-Family Nurse Practitioner 1996.

Dixon, Michael, Does 'healing' benefit patients with chronic symptoms? A quasi-randomized trial in general practice, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1998, 91, 183-188.

Gordon, Andrea/ Merenstein, Joel H./ D'Amico, Frank/ Hudgens, David, The effects of Therapeutic Touch on patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, Journal of Family Practice 1998, 47(4), 271-277.

Keller, Elizabeth Kolbet, Therapeutic Touch: a review of the literature and implications of a holistic nursing modality, Journal of Holistic Nursing 1984, 2(1), 24-29; also in: Keller, Elizabeth/ Bzdek, Virginia M. Effects of Therapeutic Touch on tension headache pain, Nursing Research 1986, 35, 101-104; Keller (Master's thesis) University of Missouri 1983.

Meehan, T. C. An Abstract of the Effect of Therapeutic Touch on the Experience of Acute Pain in Post-operative Patients (Doctoral dissertation) New York University 1985; also in: Therapeutic Touch and postoperative pain: a Rogerian research study Nursing Science Quarterly 1993, 6(2), 69-78.

Meehan, T.C. et al. The effect of Therapeutic Touch on postoperative pain, Pain 1990, Supplement p.149

Peck, Susan D. (Eckes), The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Touch for Decreasing Pain and Improving Functional Ability in Elders with Arthritis (Doctoral dissertation), University of Minnesota 1996; Journal of Holistic Nursing 1997 Jun; 15(2): 176-198.

Redner, Robin/ Briner, Barbara/ Snellman, Lynn, Effects of a bioenergy healing technique on chronic pain, Subtle Energies 1991, 2(3), 43-68.

Slater, Victoria E. The safety, elements, and effects of Healing Touch on chronic non-malignant abdominal pain (Doctoral Dissertation) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing 1996.

Sundblom, D. Markus, Haikonen, Sari et al. The effect of spiritual healing on chronic idiopathic pain - a medical and biological study, Clinical Journal of Pain 1994, 10, 286-302.

Turner, J. G/ Clark, AJ/ Gauthier, DK/ Williams, M, The effect of Therapeutic Touch on pain and anxiety in burn patients, Journal of Advanced Nursing 1998, 28, 10-20.