Rethinking Prayer and Health Research: An Exploratory Inquiry on Prayer’s Psychological Dimension

Authors

Adrian Andreescu, Independent Researcher

DOI

10.24972/ijts.2011.30.1-2.23

Abstract

A brief literature review of cancer survival trials is employed by the author to raise questions

on their design and to bring speculatively into discussion concepts such as “worldview”,

“intentional normative dissociation”, and “psychosomatic plasticity-proneness”. Using prayer’s

psychological dimension as a way to unite such elements opens new fertile perspectives on

the academic study of prayer and health. In this context, it is suggested that a consistent

interdisciplinary research agenda is required in order to understand those biopsychosocial

factors interconnected within the process and outcome of prayer before attempting to

decipher the big answers laying dormant probably within the transpersonal and spiritual

layers of human experience.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Andreescu, A. (2011). Andreescu, A. (2010). Rethinking prayer and health research: An exploratory inquiry on prayer’s psychological dimension. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 30(1-2), 23–47.. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 30 (1). https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2011.30.1-2.23