The ritual effect

the healing response to forms and performs

Farzad Goli

pp. 117-132

in: Farzad Goli (ed), Biosemiotic medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

From this viewpoint, a surgical operation, psychotherapy or an acupuncture session could be seen as healing rituals. A tribesman can consider all of them as different types of neoshamanistic ceremonies for healing. He may not care about their unknown contents and chemophysical elements.