Word: healer
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...thick as Schlag on the strudels. Friedrich Nietzsche and Dr. Joseph Breuer, an early associate of Freud's, are striking an odd bargain. The physician will try to cure his patient's migraine attacks; the philosopher will treat the doctor's deep- rooted angst. Soon their roles reverse: healer becomes sufferer and, voila!, the psychoanalytic revolution begins. In WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT (Basic Books; $20), psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom imagines an encounter between two < real people who never met. The novel is strewn with italic sentences to highlight his characters' head-smacking insights. Still, their relationship carries a certain poignancy...
...cause cancer and which cannot be detected by any known scientific instrument. Fortunately, they can be sensed by a dowser carrying a forked willow stick. The trusting viewer in what was the Soviet Union places a bottle of water atop his TV set every morning so that a faith healer can "charge" the contents with curative power via Channel 6. In Finland and Sweden the private, expensive and government- accredited Rudolf Steiner schools teach children to cast horoscopes and believe that sprites inhabit trees and rocks...
...introduction of Farrakhan's 1988 address at Penn, Muhammad called the Nation of Islam leader "My God." Is this the kind of role model you'd want a healer of racial wounds to bring to Sanders Theatre...
This argument, however, ignores the definition of a doctor. Professor Leon Kass, M.D., of the University of Chicago, notes that euthanasia "would change the meaning of being a physician from being a healer to that of being an annihilator." He reminds us that the role of the physician has been that of a person who benefits "the sick by the activity of healing...
...this spirit that I visited an Israeli healer. Suffering from a persistent tickling in my right ear that had me convinced that some rain- forest bug had set up household in my head, I decided to see "bioenergist" Zeev Kolman. A kindly man, Kolman first studied my "aura," looking for perturbations, and then set to work by simply moving his hands in the air over my body. After a few seconds I began to feel a current crackling between his hands and my skin, and a pleasant tickling in the bothersome ear. At one point, I felt a whooshing sensation...