Understanding Traditional Healing Cures

Healing cures have two stages, the transformation and the recovery.

In the theory of cure, healing cures are defined as cures that result of the natural forces of life, which act to remove damage around a wound, and repair it. The concept of healing covers injuries to body, mind, spirits, and communities – each of which might suffer injuries.

However, many traditional – and some conventional medical practices use the word healing differently.

How might we reconcile these definitional differences?

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TAJ on Cure: Effective Permission Giving

Transactional Analysis Journal 1980 CURE edition was preceded by a paper on a cure accomplished by “permission giving.

In January 1980, a few months before the journal of Transactional Analysis published their April edition, focusing on Cure published:

Effective Permission-Giving and Representational Systems by William H. Thweatt

William H Thweatt reports a case of narcolepsy (sleeping sickness) cured by Transactional Analysis. There is no external link to the specific case in the paper nor in any of the references listed. The case is presented as a story, an anecdote. This might lead us to dismiss the claim.

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