title: Sigmund Freud: pioneer in energy healing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Energy healing is a popular contemporary term for forms of healing that facilitate a natural healing process through harmonizing, rebalancing, and releasing energy flow disturbed or blocked by disease and illness. Biographical evidence indicates that Freud used physical, suggestive, and radiant forms of energy healing, and that his personal life, metapsychology, and psychoanalysis were founded on dynamic, energetic experiences and conceptualizations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Analysis of Freud's life and work leads to the conclusion that in experience, theory, and practice, Freud typified the traditional role of therapist and was a pioneer in modern forms of energy healing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, Durban, South Africa.
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000266:history; D026441:Mind-Body Therapies / Q000266:history*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D019413:Qi / Q000266:history*