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With their hands they can touch you in all kinds of different ways. Friendly touch, romantic touch, therapeutic touch, sexual touch.

Therapeutic touch was developed in 1972 by Dora Kunz, a psychic healer, and Dolores Krieger, PhD., run, a nurse and professor of nursing at New York University.

Dolores Krieger has written:

'Accepting your power to heal' -- subject(s): Therapeutic use, Touch, Mental Healing

'Therapeutic Touch As Transpersonal Healing'

'The therapeutic touch'

'Foundations for holistic health nursing practices' -- subject(s): Holistic Health, Holistic nursing, Nursing Philosophy, Nursing texts

Therapeutic touch, or TT, is a noninvasive method of healing that was derived from an ancient laying--on of hands technique. In TT, the practitioner alters the patient's energy field through an energy transfer that moves from the hands.

Because touch is also a form of communication, sensitive touch can convey a sense of caring--an essential element in the therapeutic relationship--to the person receiving massage.