Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 16, 2025

Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Empathy in medicine: A ritualistic healing function?
Marion Hendrickx1, Patrick Hautecoeur2, Emmanuel Drouin2
1Psychiatry Service, GHICL, Hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, boulevard de Belfort, 59000 Lille, France.
Abstract:
Marcel Réja (1873-1957) French alienist evokes in his book « Au pays des miracles » this innumerable people of healers, mystics, empirics, magnetizers, mediums and fantasists. All operating "cures more wonderful than each other". This book questions in a very relevant way the role of the power of the spirit, of healing by the spirit and therefore of suggestion. This "art" of healers includes an affective and emotional coefficient which constitutes its essential spring. There is a mysterious force between the sick and the physician that goes "soul to soul". Current medicine is still very much borrowed from its past with a remnant of "magical" thought. Also, the empathetic dimension of the care relationship remains one of the most necessary dimensions for the exercise of the medical profession.
More Related Videos
11:50Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Published on: January 7, 2020
11:12Modulation of the Neurophysiological Response to Fearful and Stressful Stimuli Through Repetitive Religious Chanting
Published on: November 4, 2021
Related Concept Videos
Empathy
Techniques of therapeutic communication I: Active Listening, Sharing Observations, Validation, and Using Touch
Therapeutic communication is not the same as social interaction. Social interaction has no goal or purpose and consists of casual information sharing, whereas therapeutic communication has a plan or purpose for the conversation. Therapeutic...
Ethical Issues
Ethical Concerns in Healthcare:
Ethics and Bioethics
Ethical Dilemmas II
Ethical Dilemmas I
Let us explore some examples to understand the potentially complex moral decisions nurses face.
Take the case of caring for minors, particularly in areas related to reproductive...