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Understanding healing: a conceptual analysis
Author(s) -
Wendler M Cecilia
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.26123.x
Subject(s) - transformative learning , process (computing) , epistemology , psychology , the arts , psychotherapist , computer science , political science , developmental psychology , philosophy , law , operating system
The practice of the healing arts has been a part of human history since ancient times Despite the development of related scholarly concepts in nursing such as caring, healing remains an enigma Using conceptual analysis a clear definition of healing within a Rogerian/Newmaman framework is explicated Case development assists in the understanding of healing as a concept, and questions arising from this definition provide focus for further scholarly work A result of this process of concept analysis was the development of a definition of healing which is clear and which fits the theoretical underpinnings of the unitary‐transformative paradigm Healing, as a core variable of interest in the study of health, provides important parameters for study The definition of healing which arose from the concept analysis is Healing is an experiential, energy‐requiring process in which space is created through a caring relationship in a process of expanding consciousness and results in a sense of wholeness, integration, balance and transformation and which can never be fully known