Word: kreiger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also in absentia was Dolores Kreiger, ProfessorEmerita at New York University, who received theScience Education Ig Nobel for "demonstrating themerits of therapeutic touch," a method by which acaretaker manipulates the energy fields of ailingpatients by carefully avoiding physical contactwith patients...
...Kreiger's prize was instead accepted by EmilyRosa, 11, who had debunked the theory in anarticle in the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation...
...East Asia, have done it in more or less the same manner. Even America itself has done it--do we need to be reminded of the Kent State student slayings? The very reason for this bad luck lies in the lack of wide support in society. Historian Leonard Kreiger notes that "the protagonists of individual liberty are primarily intellectuals." In such a big and poor country as China where the educated class comprises only a minority, what the intellectuals demand seems far ahead of what should come first for the majority--the 800,000,000 peasants who ask nothing more...
...this enormous opportunity -- not just to clarify the mysteries of consciousness but also to understand and treat such devastating mind malfunctions as Alzheimer's disease, depression, drug addiction, schizophrenia and traumatic brain damage -- research projects have multiplied dramatically. Over the past several years, Johns Hopkins has launched the Zanvyl Kreiger Mind/Brain Institute and Harvard has created the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative. And at the urging of the National Institute of Mental Health and other organizations, President Bush declared the 1990s the Decade of the Brain...
Despite the growing skepticism, TT practitioners show no reticence in discussing their work. "It's not something we do under the table," says Dolores Kreiger, who invented the technique in the 1970s as a professor at the New York University nursing school and claims to have taught it since then to some 45,000 health professionals. "There is validity to therapeutic touch," she insists. "Otherwise we would have been burned as witches long...