Quantum healing
Quantum healing is a pseudo-scientific mixture of ideas which claim to draw on quantum mechanics, psychology, philosophy, and neurophysiology. Advocates of quantum healing say that quantum phenomena govern health and wellbeing. Quantum healing is a form of alternative medicine.
Deepak Chopra coined the term "quantum healing" when he published the first edition of his book with that title in 1989.[1][2] His discussions of quantum healing have been characterised as technobabble - "incoherent babbling strewn with scientific terms"[3] which drives those who actually understand physics "crazy"[4] and as "redefining Wrong".[5]
References
- ↑ Baer, Hans A. (2003). "The Work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra-Two Holistic Health/New Age Gurus: A Critique of the Holistic Health/New Age Movements". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 17 (2): 233–50. doi:10.1525/maq.2003.17.2.233. PMID 12846118.
- ↑ Chopra, Deepak (1989). Quantum Healing. New York,NY: Bantam books. ISBN 9780553053685.
- ↑ Strauss, Valerie (2015-05-15) (in en-US). Scientist: Why Deepak Chopra is driving me crazy. . https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
- ↑ Burkeman, Oliver (2012-11-23) (in en). This column will change your life: pseudoscience. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/23/change-your-life-pseudoscience. Retrieved 2018-05-19. "[Chopra]'s the guy behind Ask The Kabala and 'quantum healing', which involves 'healing the bodymind from a quantum level' by a 'shift in the fields of energy information', and which drives crazy people who actually understand physics; his critics accuse him of selling false hope to the sick.".
- ↑ Plait, Phil (2009-12-01). "Deepak Chopra: redefining "wrong"" (in en-US). Slate. . http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2009/12/01/deepak_chopra_redefining_wrong.html. Retrieved 2018-05-19.