title: A brief guide to extended network entanglement theory as a theory of healing and its empirical predictions.
abstract: Extended network entanglement theory (ENET) derives from a combination of two theoretical ideas: complexity theory and weak quantum theory. The theory suggests that generalized entanglement evolved initially as a form of communication within the body needed to enable the body to self-organize according to genetically specified patterns, and then as a form of communication between organisms which form social groups. This latter form of communication is at the heart of healing mechanisms. This paper sets out the theory in the form of 16 propositions and then describes 11 research ideas. ENET theory suggests that researchers should focus more on the patient-therapist dyad rather than the technical aspects of the therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK. mhyland@plymouth.ac.uk
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hyland
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D008602:Mental Healing / Q000523:psychology; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011789:Quantum Theory