Healing Exploring Healing Below are some thoughts on the concept of healing from Dr. Phyllis Kritek, professor and director of the UTMB School of Nursing at Galveston Doctoral Program.
Healing refers to a sense of wholeness.
We picture the bone mending, the incision closing. While these are certainly examples of healing, the idea of wholeness is a much richer one. It involves every dimension of wellness. Each human who experiences healing, enhanced wholeness, thus knows a certain personal integrity of being. Healing practices are those which help others achieve a sense of wholeness, intactness, personal integrity . . .