PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - W Glannon
TI  - Transcendence and healing
AID  - 10.1136/jmh.2002.000145
DP  - 2004 Dec 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 70--73
VI  - 30
IP  - 2
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/30/2/70.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/30/2/70.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2004 Dec 01; 30
AB  - Healing aims to restore the wholeness of persons by restoring the unity of mind and body disrupted by disease. Transcendence promotes healing by altering or cultivating beliefs that can modulate the body’s response to pain or make sense of pain. This in turn can produce an emotional response that enables people to cope with chronic or terminal illness. I explain transcendence in terms of a monistic rather than dualistic conception of mind and body, which supports the idea of medicine as a healing art as well as a curative science.