mental healing
noun
the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.
mental healer
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a word derived from
mental healing.
Example Sentences
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Thanks to the moral support of Richard Fraser, a Quaker, she not only retains her sanity but becomes something of a mental healer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every good doctor is more or less a mental healer, but every doctor cannot become a specialist in Psycho-therapy, nor would he need to.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins
The diet expert, the hydropath, the physical culturist, the adjuster of the spine, the mental healer, and Christian scientist, do not pay much attention to the pathological conditions or to the symptoms of disease.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
The mental healer is like one rowing against the current of a mighty river.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Some women are supposed to possess the power of the angakok—a combination of the gifts of the fortune teller, the mental healer, and the psalmodist, one might say.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
