Thetahealing, Práticas Integrativas e Complementares em políticas públicas no SUS, em país laico com maioria da população cristã

Abstract

Faith Healing is usually related to religious practices that use faith as a means of achieving healing. Non-religious healing, on the other hand, refers to therapeutic practices that are not necessarily linked to a specific religion, such as the practice of Thetehealing. Integrative and Complementary Practices (PICS) are therapies that use complementary approaches to conventional medicine, accepted by the Ministry of Health and used by the SUS – Unified Health System. Public policies as PICS. The relationship between Thetahealing, the PICS and policies for the population with a Christian majority, in a secular country, is intrinsically linked with the possibility of inclusion and access to complementary therapy services, which can help in the process of health and well-being, duly recognized as integrative and complementary practice and with public investment for training professionals, in order to offer it as a therapeutic technique in a safe and effective way, guaranteeing the physical and psychological integrity of users. The inclusion of PICS, such as Thetahealing, in the SUS can be a way to expand access to these complementary therapies, since they are similar to the PICS already implemented, with interesting observations about self-esteem, self-confidence, selfcare, the search for justice and overcoming traumas, how therapeutic help and emotional support can be an important motivation for overcoming in a secular country but with flourishing syncretism