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DOI:10.58717/ijhc.01

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September 2026, Vol 26, No 3

Fundraising for IJHC

Hi IJHC Community,It is fund raising time of year!If you like the information available in the journal, please contribute. We are grateful for your support. Some 55,000 readers access our journal on a monthly basis and we provide the information free of charge. We are continuing to upgrade the journal and have recently completed posting

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Editorial Musings

Authored By Dr. Kendra Gaines AI. Artificial Intelligence. Which of these two words should one pay most attention to? The “artificial” part, or the “intelligence” part? If you’re thinking I have the answer, sorry to disappoint, but I do not. I do know that it’s everywhere now, and it’s just the beginning. Already there’s a

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Selected Ethical Considerations of AI Therapy

Authored By Jan Warner This article examines selected ethical issues in AI-mediated psychotherapy, focusing on measuring its clinical efficacy and noting the limited evidence available for specific psychological disorders and populations. Current AI therapy research often relies on established measures of symptom reductions that were not designed specifically to measure AI psychotherapy and may overlook

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Can Artificial Intelligence replace Reiki practitioners?

Authored By Ann Linda Baldwin In the last few years, the idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) to aid, or even replace, energy healing practitioners, has received increasing attention in the press and online. Examples of AI implementation that have been proposed include tailoring a Reiki session in response to minute-by-minute physiological changes in a

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The Weaponization of Quantum Terminology: A Physician’s Biophysical Defense of Energy Medicine Against Automated Digital Scams

Authored By Dr. William Schroeder Together diverse lines of evidence demonstrate that the energy modality of healing is not an impossibility, but rather an expected property of reality, congruent with both standard physics and non-local quantum physics. Concurrently, widespread public unfamiliarity persists regarding: (1) the underlying biophysics of healing and its established scientific principles; (2)

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AI as Personalized Healthcare: Probabilistic Data, the Ethical Bottleneck, and the Steinerian Imperative

Authored By Igor Nazarov The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has far outpaced the accumulation of prospective clinical evidence. While AI tools are increasingly deployed as “invisible co-pilots” within Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and public-facing wellness apps, a fundamental divide remains between high-dimensional statistical pattern

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Artificial Intelligence in Pain Management and Integrative Care: Helpful Tool or Patient-Safety Risk

Authored By Dr. Markus Ploesser Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used by patients to obtain health information, interpret symptoms and explore treatment options, raising questions about its safety in pain management and integrative care. This commentary examines recent evidence on general-purpose large language models and purpose-built AI applications used in pain- related contexts. Current studies

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Artificial Intelligence: Physical End Point Limitations

Authored By Dr. Caitlin A Connor There are a lot of discussions going on about AI, what it can do, what is safe to do, and how it works. Unfortunately, few if any of these discussions are looking at the difference between what an AI can be programmed to do with an entire server room

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It is too late. The genie is out of the Bottle.

Authored By Melinda H. Connor There is a lot of discussion today about the potential for AI systems to slip the control of their developers. As seen in current media it has already happened. The following assessment is my opinion and not necessarily the position of IJHC.org. However, let me give you some specifics as

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