Therapeutic Touch (TT, Krieger-Kunz Method of Therapeutic Touch): A derivative of the laying on of hands. Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., and Dora van Gelder Kunz, born in the Dutch East Indies, initiated TT in 1972.
Nursing professor emerita Dolores Krieger is the author of Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch (Bear and Company, 1993), Foundations for Holistic Health Nursing Practices: The Renaissance Nurse, Living the Therapeutic Touch: Healing As a Lifestyle, The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Simon & Schuster, 1992), and the Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook: Ventures in Transpersonal Healing (Bear and Company, 1996). TT has been taught in over 100 countries as well as in the United States. Today, TT is taught in hospitals and health centers worldwide and is most commonly practiced by nurses. Many hospitals have TT programs for their staff and geriatic patients. For instance, see https://hartfordhospital.org/services/integrative-medicine/departments-services/therapeutic-touch
There are 59 research articles supporting Therapeutic Touch for pain, stress and anxiety reduction, as well as showing TT to be effective for reducing or eliminating sinus and migraine headaches.
