Healers have been around almost as long as human beings have been on this planet. Indeed many people have come to believe that Healing as a profession is no more than some weird new age mumbo-jumbo. The realities at the end of the 20th century are very different. Healers are now being invited into hospitals by the Health Service. Doctors still provide placebos, often with considerable beneficial effect and in the only major research performed since the second world war in both Europe and America to determine which adopted mythologies were most effective in psychology and counseling, the results showed that the method adopted was not the determining factor but whether the psychologist or councilor was a Healer.