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Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming. v. t. e. Neuro-linguistic programming ( NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder 's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes ...
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing ( EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that is controversial within the psychological community. [1] It was devised by Francine Shapiro in 1987 and originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories such as post-traumatic ...
Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which a "universal energy" is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing. Reiki is a pseudoscience, and is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts ...
The course aims to help recognise the stress response, calm it and manage it in the long term. It also applies some ideas drawn from neurolinguistic programming (a pseudoscience), as well as elements of life coaching. The approach has raised some controversy due to using psychological techniques to cure a physical illness.
Alternative medicine is defined loosely as a set of products, practices, and theories that are believed or perceived by their users to have the healing effects of medicine, but whose effectiveness has not been established using scientific methods, or whose theory and practice is not part of biomedicine, or whose theories or practices are ...
e. Hypnotherapy, also known as hypnotic medicine, [1] is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. [2] [3] The efficacy of hypnotherapy is not well supported by scientific evidence, [1] [4] [5] and, due to the lack of evidence indicating any level of efficacy, [6] it is regarded as a type of alternative medicine by reputable medical organisations ...
Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opal. Adherents of the practice claim that these have healing powers, but there is no scientific basis for this claim. [1] [2] [3] Practitioners of crystal healing believe they can boost low energy ...
v. t. e. Emotional Freedom Techniques ( EFT) is a technique that stimulates acupressure points by pressuring, tapping or rubbing while focusing on situations that represent personal fear or trauma. [2] EFT draws on various theories of alternative medicine – including acupuncture, neuro-linguistic programming, energy medicine, and Thought ...