Self-organizing biopsychosocial dynamics and the patient-healer relationship

Forschende Komplementarmedizin

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 22-29

  Pincus, David ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Dynamic systems; Empathy; Non locality; Nonlinear; Quantum physics; Retrocausality; Self organization; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROUSAL; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; DISEASES; EMPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LEUKOCYTE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW; SYSTEMS THEORY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AROUSAL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAUSALITY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LEUKOCYTES; MENTAL HEALING; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SYSTEMS THEORY; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84856839354     PISSN: 16614119     EISSN: 16614127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335186     Document Type: Review

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